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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Aunt Gladys' question when Neil calls to tell her he will be gone another week?
(a) She wants to know if he has clean underwear.
(b) She asks him if she needs to send him anything.
(c) She asks him is he is sleeping with Brenda.
(d) She asks if he is getting too good to stay with her.

2. What does Neil do the day after the wedding?
(a) He slips out of the house and returns to Newark.
(b) He stays in his room and wonders if he will lose Brenda.
(c) At noon the day after the wedding, Neil drives Brenda to her train back to school.
(d) He returns to his job at the library.

3. What prevents them for seeing much of each other the next day?
(a) Brenda and Harriet spending most of the day in the beauty salon.
(b) The sudden arrival of Harriet's cousins.
(c) All of the activity surrounding the wedding.
(d) The nervousness of their relationship after getting the diaphragm.

4. What does Brenda want to do for Neil?
(a) She wants to help him get a better paying job.
(b) She wants to give him a new car.
(c) She wants to train him to run track.
(d) She wants to let him watch her shower.

5. What happens with Brenda's father at the reception?
(a) He refuses to dance with his wife.
(b) He gets drunk and falls on his face.
(c) He starts callin Neil his second son.
(d) At the reception, Mr. Patimkin gets drunk and appears to accept Neil as Brenda's boyfriend.

6. What is the urgency about the wedding?
(a) Ron may get cold feet if they don't marry right away.
(b) Ron is leaving for overseas.
(c) Harriet's parents will only be able to come that week.
(d) Harriet is expecting a baby.

7. What does Neil ask Mrs. Patimkin if she has read?
(a) He asks if she has read Karl Marx.
(b) He asks if she has read the latest Life Magazine.
(c) He asks if she had read any of philosopher Martin Buber's work.
(d) He asks if she has read Origin of Species.

8. What does Mrs. Patimkin tell Brenda she should do?
(a) Help her with the wedding plans.
(b) Get a job.
(c) Take a vacation in Europe.
(d) Send Neil packing.

9. When Brenda is modeling her bridesmaid dress, what does Harriet say to her?
(a) Harriet says that to wear that dress, Brenda will have to change her hair style.
(b) Harriet says that the color is all wrong.
(c) Harriet tells Brenda that she is beautiful and should be the bride.
(d) Harriet says that the skirt of the dress is too short.

10. What does Neil admit is the extent of his religious participation?
(a) He belongs to Hudson Street Synagogue, but he has not been active.
(b) He observes Jewish holidays sometimes.
(c) He goes to Hudson Street Synagogue every Sabbath.
(d) He is a practicing Buddhist.

11. Why does Neil think Harriet is a perfect match for Ron?
(a) Like him she is mainly concerned with appearances.
(b) She is an expert golfer.
(c) She is strong willed where Ron is weak.
(d) She is something of a slob, too.

12. What is so disturbing to Mrs. Patimkin?
(a) She is upset because Brenda has betrayed them by having a relationship with a boy from another social class.
(b) She is upset because she has a man picked out for Brenda to marry.
(c) She is upset because Brenda did not come and discuss things with her.
(d) She thinks Brenda has been acting out of spite against the family.

13. Why does Neil enter St. Patrick's cathedral?
(a) To see how Catholics worship.
(b) To talk to a priest.
(c) To cool off.
(d) To watch a model being photographed inside the church.

14. Who does Neil miss seeing at the library?
(a) He never sees the African-American kid again.
(b) He misses seeing Ron.
(c) He misses the teenage girls.
(d) He misses seeing the lions that were removed.

15. What does Neil want to discuss with Brenda?
(a) He wants to know if she would consider marrying him.
(b) He wants to borrow money for a new suit.
(c) He wants her to get a diaphragm.
(d) He wants her to elope with him the night of Ron's wedding.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Brenda once say that Neil believes hinted at marriage?

2. What is in a letter from Brenda's father?

3. What is Ron doing when Neil arrives?

4. What is the weather like in Newark when Neil drives to the mountains to see the deer?

5. What are the men all talking about?

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