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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 father sell?
(a) Ties.
(b) Insurance.
(c) Vacuum cleaners.
(d) Bonds.

2. What non-kosher food does the narrator have for dinner while out with his sister?
(a) Snails.
(b) Catfish.
(c) Lobster.
(d) Oysters.

3. What kind of grades does the young narrator make?
(a) All As.
(b) All Fs.
(c) All Cs.
(d) All Ds.

4. What happened to the intellectual journals the protagonist sent to his father?
(a) They were mailed back.
(b) They were put in the library.
(c) They were thrown out.
(d) They were burned.

5. What is not kosher after eating meat?
(a) Cream in coffee.
(b) Cake.
(c) Dessert.
(d) Jello.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the narrator's father's coworker who bamboozled his mother into eating lobster?

2. Who does the narrator's father hold up as someone to emulate in life?

3. What is the term the narrator uses to mean "spank?"

4. Where does the narrator's family move in 1941?

5. Who tells the narrator, "They worship a Jew, do you know that?"

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