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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 the difference in their educations?
(a) Brenda makes only fair grades while Neil graduated at the top of his class.
(b) Brenda attends Radcliffe in Boston. Neil had attended Newark Colleges of Rutgers University, a lesser institution.
(c) Brenda is still in school but Neill is a dropout.
(d) Brenda attends Radcliffe while Neil is working on a degree from community college.

2. 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) Mrs. Patimkin's mah jong parties at her house.
(c) Mrs. Patimkin's Hadassah parties from which she returns at unpredictable hours.
(d) Her metaphysics study group that meets in her house.

3. What does Neil think that shows he is infatuated with Brenda?
(a) Neil does not notice Brenda's crooked teeth.
(b) Neil thinks she looks like Elizabeth Taylor.
(c) Neil thinks she has two wet triangles on the back of her white polo shirt where wings would have been if she had been an angel.
(d) Neil cannot stop looking at her knees.

4. What does Neil explain to the boy?
(a) That the head librarian would be leaving in a few minutes.
(b) That he should have his mother come with him to the library.
(c) That he needs a library card to look at the books.
(d) That the Gauguin paintings were done in Tahiti.

5. When Neil finds the boy later, what is he doing?
(a) Trying to reach a large book on the top shelf.
(b) Sleeping under a library table.
(c) Crying because the head librarian said he could not see the books.
(d) Sitting on the floor looking at a book of Gauguin paintings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What promotion has more or less been promised to Neil?

2. What Characteristic of Mrs. Patimkin gives evidence of her more humble beginnings?

3. What was Neil's major in Rutgers?

4. Why is Neil less class conscious than Brenda's family?

5. At the pool, what juvenile prank does Neil attempt?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Neil feel sitting at the table with the Patimkin family?

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

3. What does Neil tell Brenda about his family?

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

5. Besides his week at Brenda's house, what else does Neil have to look forward to?

6. What is Mrs. Patimkin's athletic involvement?

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

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

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

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

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