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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Neil think about as he drives into the area of the business?
(a) He wonders if Uncle Max is in the area.
(b) He wonders if the Patimkins tell their friends where the business is.
(c) Neil wonders if he will see the kid from the library.
(d) He wonders if Brenda ever worked there.

3. What effect does Mrs. Patimkin's nagging have on Brenda?
(a) She starts crying.
(b) She starts singing at the top of her lungs.
(c) She ignores her mother completely.
(d) She goes outside and screams.

4. What is in a letter from Brenda's father?
(a) Her father orders her to come home.
(b) Her father wrote her first not to pay attention to her mother's letter.
(c) Her father says that her mother is crazy.
(d) Her father says she had better not be pregnant.

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

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

7. Three days before Ron's and Harriet's wedding, where do Neil and Brenda go?
(a) They go to Columbus.
(b) They go to Aunt Gladys' house.
(c) They go to New York.
(d) They go to New Haven.

8. What indicates that Brenda does not particularly like Harriet?
(a) Brenda makes a face when she mentions Harriet's name.
(b) Brenda does not go to the airport to greet her.
(c) Brenda says her mother likes Harriet more than she does her.
(d) Brenda calls her goody-goody Harriet.

9. Where did Ron get the record he puts on the phonograph?
(a) Brenda had given it ot him years ago.
(b) He got it at graduation from Ohio State University.
(c) He found it at a flea market.
(d) He bought it in Columbus Ohio.

10. What is on the record Ron suggests Neil listen to?
(a) The announcer at Ron's last basketball game.
(b) The song, Good-bye Columbus.
(c) The Yale Glee club.
(d) Frank Sinatra's greatest hits.

11. What does Neil hear coming from Ron's room one night?
(a) Bells and a gloomy male voice reciting Good-bye Columbus.
(b) Ron crying into his pillow.
(c) Harriet squeeling with pleasure.
(d) Ron talking on the phone to a girl who was not Harriet.

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

13. What is Ron doing when Neil arrives?
(a) Talking to some pretty female customers.
(b) Sitting in the office making calls.
(c) Teaching ghetto kids to play basketball.
(d) Supervising the unloading of some new porcelin sinks.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Neil wait for Brenda while she is at the doctor's office?

2. What prevents them for seeing much of each other the next day?

3. What problem has arisen at the Patimkin house?

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

5. Where do Neil and Brenda go after breakfast?

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