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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) William S. Woodbury.
(b) Jackson Williams.
(c) Kenneth R. Moriarty.
(d) N. Everett Lindabury.

2. Why does the narrator's father say his cousin Toby will never want for popularity?
(a) She is pretty.
(b) She knows shorthand.
(c) She paints.
(d) She plays piano.

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

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

5. 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 burned.
(d) They were thrown out.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the narrator's sister?

2. Where does the narrator live with his family in his childhood?

3. What is the name of the narrator's father?

4. What is the title of Chapter 2?

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

(see the answer key)

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