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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What surprise does Brenda have in store for Neil?
(a) She has brought along a sorority sister.
(b) She is wearing a fake gold wedding ring, and they sign the hotel register as Mr. and Mrs. Neil Klugman.
(c) She has bought him a new trench coat.
(d) She asks him to marry her.

2. Why can Neil not go to meet Brenda?
(a) His car is in the shop.
(b) His Aunt Gladys is ill.
(c) His parents are coming from Tuscon.
(d) He cannot take off any time from work, because he just got a raise.

3. What does Brenda show Neil in the room just off of the guest room?
(a) A four posted bed ready for them to use.
(b) Shelves and shelves of shoes.
(c) Their old furniture from when they lived in Newark.
(d) Boxes and boxes of their old clothes that Mrs. Patimkin does not throw away.

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

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

6. How does Brenda reply to her mother's suggestion that she go to work?
(a) She has no job skills thanks to her mother's demands.
(b) Maybe she will work in McDonald's and tell everyone of Mrs. Patimkin's social friends.
(c) She tells her mother if she wants more income for the family, she shoud go to work herself.
(d) They could live off the income from their stocks alone.

7. Where does Mrs. Patimkin send Neil?
(a) She sends Neil to New York to bring back silverware patterns.
(b) Since she cannot go herself, she sends Neil to Newark.
(c) She sends Neil to the airport to get Harriet's mother.
(d) She sends Neil to pick up Julie from her riding class.

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

9. What does Ron invite Neil to do?
(a) Go downstairs and have a drink.
(b) Come to his room and listen to records.
(c) Go to the club for a swim.
(d) Play a game of basketball.

10. What happens to Neil inside the church?
(a) Neil sees tries to talk to God about his relationship with Brenda.
(b) Neil gets pangs of conscience for being in a church instead of a synagogue.
(c) Neil suddenly thinks about Aunt Gladys and what she would think of him at that moment.
(d) Neil has a premonition that Brenda will leave and never return.

11. In a letter, when does Brenda say she will be returning from school?
(a) For Rosh Hashana which is a week away.
(b) In a month after her exams.
(c) In two weeks to shop for winter clothes in New York.
(d) For spring break.

12. How do Brenda and Neil begin to talk about their relationship?
(a) In the past tense.
(b) As though it never happened.
(c) Out of fear.
(d) As a mismatch.

13. What does Ron ask Neil if he would like to listen to?
(a) He asks Neil if he would like to listen to his talking mynah.
(b) He asks Neil if he would like to listen to a family argument.
(c) He asks Neil if he wants to listen to his phonograph.
(d) He asks Neil if he would like to listen to his wedding speech.

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

15. Why do Neill and Brenda go to New York?
(a) They goe to get Neil a tuxedo.
(b) They go to be alone together in the park.
(c) They go to get away from the confusion of the wedding plans.
(d) Brenda is going to be fitted for a diaphragm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mrs. Patimkin doing while she is in the kitchen with Carlotta and Neil?

2. What complaint does Mr. Patimkin make to Neil?

3. What does Brenda bring along the next time they go to the track?

4. What does Neil admit is the extent of his religious participation?

5. Where does Neil find Mr. Patimkin's business?

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