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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What beach does the narrator's family stay at during the summers?
(a) Bradley Beach.
(b) Atlantic City.
(c) Coney Island.
(d) Neptune Beach.

2. Where does the narrator live with his family in his childhood?
(a) Florida.
(b) California.
(c) Wisconsin.
(d) New York.

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

4. What sport is the narrator obsessed with?
(a) Baseball.
(b) Soccer.
(c) Football.
(d) Basketball.

5. What does the narrator believe to be cancer in his freshman year of high school?
(a) A bruise.
(b) A fever blister.
(c) A mole.
(d) A freckle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the narrator's mother called in high school?

2. How does the narrator's mother say that Melvin Weiner gave himself colitis?

3. What is the one topic the narrator says is the only thing to which his father can "sink his teeth?"

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

5. What does the narrator's mother obsess over him catching?

(see the answer key)

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