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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator's mother threaten him with when he refuses to eat dinner?
(a) Being grounded.
(b) Starvation.
(c) A gun.
(d) A bread knife.

2. What does the narrator say he's the son in?
(a) A hell.
(b) A nightmare.
(c) A Polish joke.
(d) A Jewish joke.

3. Who does the narrator's father hold up as someone to emulate in life?
(a) Walter Winchell.
(b) Dwight Eisenhower.
(c) Billy Rose.
(d) William Rockefeller.

4. What is the term used for a non-Jewish girl?
(a) Shikse.
(b) Yidka.
(c) Lynx.
(d) Goyetta.

5. What is the one topic the narrator says is the only thing to which his father can "sink his teeth?"
(a) The news.
(b) The New Jersey Turnpike.
(c) The theater.
(d) Life insurance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's father say one must prepare for?

2. What does the narrator's mother do when he does something wrong?

3. What is the title of Chapter 4?

4. What does the narrator's mother give the cleaning lady for lunch?

5. Of what faith is the narrator's family?

(see the answer key)

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