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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) Vacuum cleaners.
(c) Insurance.
(d) Bonds.

2. Where did the narrator eat a seafood dinner with his sister and her fiance in Chapter 4?
(a) Jersey City.
(b) Brooklyn Heights.
(c) Sheepshead Bay.
(d) Park Slope.

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

4. What is the name of the company for whom the narrator's father works?
(a) Williams & Flannagan.
(b) Ernst, Williams & Johnson.
(c) Boston & Northeastern Life.
(d) Johnson & Johnson.

5. What is the name of the cleaning woman who works for the narrator's family?
(a) Hannah.
(b) Esther.
(c) Dorothy.
(d) Mary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the intellectual journals the protagonist sent to his father?

2. Who is the narrator sitting next to on the bus in Chapter 4?

3. What is the narrator's mother doing when he sees her menstrual blood?

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

5. What is the narrator's cousin's name who lives in Newark?

(see the answer key)

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