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

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

3. What was Mrs. Patimkin's connection to sports when she was younger?
(a) She ran in the Boston Marathon once.
(b) She played water polo in college.
(c) Mrs. Patimkin had been the best tennis player in the state at one time.
(d) She was a great golfer at one time.

4. How does Mrs. Patimkin further interfere with Neil and Brenda?
(a) Her habit of checking the house every night to see if Carlotta is doing her job.
(b) Her metaphysics study group that meets in her house.
(c) Mrs. Patimkin's Hadassah parties from which she returns at unpredictable hours.
(d) Mrs. Patimkin's mah jong parties at her house.

5. What promotion has more or less been promised to Neil?
(a) He is scheduled to become the assistant librarian.
(b) He has been promised a transfer to the Short Hills brance.
(c) He has been selected to become education division supervisor.
(d) He is supposed to be put in charge of the Reference Room, which is a currently a vacant position.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Julie loses the game?

2. What does Neil take out of the refrigerator in the basement?

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

4. What happens in the TV room later that night after Brenda returns?

5. What is a typical dinner at Aunt Gladys' house?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is Julie's character further defined in the play room that evening?

3. 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?

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

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

6. What does Brenda do that suggests she is very infatuated with Neil?

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

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

9. Describe Neil's family in Newark.

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

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