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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 49 through 58.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Henry do to Jimmy's mother after Jimmy goes to sleep?
(a) Proposition her
(b) Asks her to let him move in
(c) Punch her
(d) Sends her out to get him more beer

2. What does Henry awaken to see?
(a) The small box that his grandmother gave him
(b) Two faces staring at him
(c) His grandmother praying over him
(d) Two dark eyes peering at him

3. Why does Henry think that he didn't get the job at the airplane factory?
(a) Showed up drunk to the interview
(b) Stopped to feed a starving dog on the way to the job
(c) Born in Germany
(d) He didn't fill out the application and turned it in blank

4. What does Big Henry become obsessed with and talk incessantly about?
(a) The war
(b) The ROTC
(c) Henry's acne
(d) His job

5. What causes fist fights in the vacant lots among some of Henry's friends?
(a) Free food
(b) Weeds that some say are edible
(c) Basketball games
(d) Drawings

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Big Henry want Henry to be?

2. What do Frank and Henry sell to the Jewish ladies who sit on the benches at the beach?

3. Where did Henry's grandmother live?

4. Why does Henry say that he can't make an obvious mistake?

5. Who does Pete say took Lilly Fischman's virginity?

(see the answer key)

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