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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. Ironically, where is Mr. Patimkin's store that makes all the money for the family to live in Short Hills?
(a) The African-American section of Newark.
(b) In Brooklyn.
(c) On the waterfront.
(d) In the Bronx.

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

3. What Characteristic of Mrs. Patimkin gives evidence of her more humble beginnings?
(a) She wears bargain basement clothes.
(b) She does not like to throw anything away.
(c) She does not like to waste money.
(d) She still does her own cooking and cleaning.

4. What shows Neil's eagerness to see Brenda?
(a) He keeps looking at his watch.
(b) He reads up on the lives of the rich and famous.
(c) He arrives early in Short Hills.
(d) He changes his clothes seven times.

5. The first time Neil phones Brenda, why does she not come to the phone?
(a) Her mother does not call her to the phone.
(b) She is out dining at the club.
(c) She is taking a bubble bath.
(d) She doesn't want to talk to him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How often is Neil seeing Brenda now?

2. Why does Brenda chastise Neil after he returns home and calls her?

3. How does Neil avoid the issue of the boy wanting to check the Gauguin book out of the library?

4. How has Mrs. Patimkin reinvented herself?

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

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

3. Explain a commonality between Neil and the boy.

4. How does Neil see Mr. Patimkin when he meets him at dinner?

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

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

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

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. What does Neil tell Brenda about his family?

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

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