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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. What is Neil's impression of Brenda as she plays tennis?
(a) Neil wonders why she sweats so much.
(b) Neil thinks Brenda plays tennis with beauty and grace.
(c) Neil thinks she looks masculine while playing tennis.
(d) Neil thinks her tennis outfit is very expensive.

2. How does Neil feel being there as Julie's babysitter?
(a) He feels like a poor relative.
(b) He is bored and wants to go home.
(c) He is glad to do it because he will see Branda when she returns.
(d) He thinks he can get Julie to tell him family secrets.

3. How does Brenda change the subject and get Neil to stop playing?
(a) She challenges him to a race across the pool.
(b) She threatens to scream.
(c) She asks about his parents.
(d) She tells him to grow up.

4. What does Neil take out of the refrigerator in the basement?
(a) Beer.
(b) Sodas.
(c) Chocolates.
(d) Cherries.

5. Who is playing tennis with Brenda when Neill walks up?
(a) Brenda is playing with her father.
(b) He finds her playing with her tennis coach.
(c) Brenda is playing with her brother, Ron.
(d) He finds Brenda playing against Laura Simpson Stolowitch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Neil tell Aunt Gladys he is going to the Patimkin's house for a week?

2. What do Neil and Julie do in the playroom?

3. What activity of Mr. Patimkin often interferes with Neil's and Brenda's love making?

4. What does Neil think that shows he is infatuated with Brenda?

5. How often is Neil seeing Brenda now?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is a noticeable difference between dinner at the Patimkins' house and dinner in the Klugman house?

3. What is the image the reader gets of Ron as he joins Neil and Brenda at the pool?

4. Early in the story what gives Neil away as a consummate romantic?

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

6. Describe the relationship between Neil and Brenda during the summer.

7. What is learned about Mrs. Patimkin from the conversation Neil and Brenda have outside under a tree?

8. 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?

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

10. Relate what happens when Neil finds a refrigerator in the other part of the basement.

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