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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How often is Neil seeing Brenda now?
(a) Every Wednesday evening.
(b) Twice a week.
(c) Every evening.
(d) Every weekend.

2. How is Brenda a bit ambivalent about Neill's coming to her house?
(a) She says that she is playing tennis tonight and will be sweaty afterwards, but he can come.
(b) She says she doesn't have much time but he can come for fifteen minutes.
(c) She hesitates but finally says he can come.
(d) She yawns but agrees he can come.

3. What are some of the things they do together that summer?
(a) Go to motels, see plays in New York, read books.
(b) Drive into the mountains, go out to eat, watch Ron play basketball.
(c) Play ping pong, visit museums, take long walks in Central Park.
(d) Go to Coney Island, drive to Atlantic City, visit Brenda's relatives.

4. What shows Neil's eagerness to see Brenda?
(a) He changes his clothes seven times.
(b) He keeps looking at his watch.
(c) He arrives early in Short Hills.
(d) He reads up on the lives of the rich and famous.

5. What is strange about Brenda's feeling that Neil is pursuing her?
(a) She is the one who initiates the play.
(b) She is the one who invited him to the Country Club.
(c) She keeps encouraging him.
(d) She is the one who makes all the rules.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the little African-American boy doing in front of the library?

2. How does Neil evaluate Mr. Patimkin's intelligence?

3. When Neill finally stops at Brenda's house, where does he find her?

4. Why does the boy not want to check out the Gauguin book after Neil promises to help him?

5. What does Neil explain to the boy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the social and economic difference between Brenda and Neil.

2. Describe Brenda's neighborhood in Short Hills.

3. What does the basement reveal about he Patimkin family?

4. Since they met that day at the Country Club, has Brenda forgotten the young man she asked to hold her glasses while she dived into the pool?

5. Tell how the relationship has developed between Neil and the boy who comes to look at the Gauguin book.

6. Describe the young African-American boy Neil encounters in front of the library.

7. What does Neil tell Brenda about his family?

8. How does Aunt Gladys show that she is somewhat isolated in her Newark Jewish community?

9. Explain the prejudice of the head librarian against the boy.

10. How does Neil see Mr. Patimkin when he meets him at dinner?

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