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

2. What do Neil and Brenda do as often as possible?
(a) Play tennis.
(b) Go swimming.
(c) Ride horses.
(d) Make love.

3. Who arrives at the pool and meets Neil?
(a) Several of Brenda's sorority sisters.
(b) Brenda's mother.
(c) Brenda's ex-boyfriend.
(d) Brenda's brother, Ron.

4. How does Mrs. Patimkin treat Neil?
(a) She keeps the conversation on topics Neil knows nothing about.
(b) She refuses to recognize his presence.
(c) She is merely polite.
(d) She asks questions to embarrass him.

5. What does Brenda allow Neil to do as they play in the pool?
(a) Touch her breasts.
(b) Put suntan lotion on her body.
(c) Hold her close under the water.
(d) Kiss her feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Neil's impression of Brenda as she plays tennis?

2. How do Neil and Brenda meet?

3. Where is the house of Neil Klugman's aunt and uncle where he lives?

4. How is Neil's behavior the morning after his dinner with the Patimkin family?

5. What is the small boy who was outside growling at the lions asking for when he says he wants to see heart books?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Neil tell Brenda about his family?

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

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

5. Discuss the competitive nature of Brenda.

6. 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?

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

8. Describe Neil's family in Newark.

9. Contrast Aunt Gladys and Mrs. Patimkin from the conversation Gladys and Neil have about the Patimkin house.

10. Describe the action between Neil and Brenda on the second day at the pool.

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