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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 does Neil find in the basement?
(a) A storage room.
(b) A refrigerator full of beer.
(c) A ping pong table with a broken leg.
(d) A playroom and a bar.

2. How does Brenda feel about her mother?
(a) She thinks her mother is the world's greatest.
(b) She thinks her mother stays at home too much.
(c) She thinks her mother hates her and is jealous of her.
(d) She thinks her mother is uneducated.

3. What invitation does Brenda extend to Neil?
(a) An invitation to play tennis.
(b) An invitation to a picnic.
(c) An invitation to dinner.
(d) An invitation to the opera.

4. Where is the house of Neil Klugman's aunt and uncle where he lives?
(a) Jersey City.
(b) Newark, New Jersey.
(c) Lower Manhattan.
(d) The Bronx.

5. What does Neil do from his desk on the main floor?
(a) He watches teenage girls walk up the wide flight of stairs to the main reading room.
(b) He keeps staring at the phone wanting to call Brenda.
(c) He is half-heartedly doing some filing.
(d) He falls asleep because he was up so late last night.

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides attending Rutgers, what had Neil been doing in recent years?

2. When the family goes outside, what are Mr. Patimkin and his 10-year-old daughter Julie doing?

3. What does Aunt Gladys say she and Max were able to do because they lived over their store?

4. What comment does Neil make to Brenda about her mother.

5. How do Neil and Brenda meet?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How has the relationship developed between Neil and Brenda?

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

6. What evidence is there that Brenda is driven by appearances?

7. 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?

8. How does the reader know that Neil is restless and bored babysitting Julie?

9. What rather strange job is given Neil the evening after the dinner?

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

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