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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the Company President whose picture hangs in the protagonist's family's hallway?
(a) Jackson Williams.
(b) Kenneth R. Moriarty.
(c) William S. Woodbury.
(d) N. Everett Lindabury.

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

3. What did the narrator's father encourage him to take a course in in high school?
(a) Typing.
(b) Shorthand.
(c) Home Economics.
(d) Woodworking.

4. What does the narrator tell his parents he has which makes him spend so much time in the bathroom?
(a) A fever.
(b) Diarrhea.
(c) Constipation.
(d) A sore throat.

5. What does the narrator's father say one must prepare for?
(a) Hannukah.
(b) The fall.
(c) A rainy day.
(d) The judgment day.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator's mother's name?

2. What does the narrator eat which makes his mother weep in Chapter 2?

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

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

5. What is the term used for a non-Jewish girl?

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