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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator keep hidden in the basement for the purpose of pleasuring himself?
(a) A milk bottle.
(b) A baseball glove.
(c) An apple.
(d) A jacket.

3. What does the narrator eat which makes his mother weep in Chapter 2?
(a) Hot dogs.
(b) Hamburgers.
(c) Potato chips.
(d) French fries.

4. What is the principle ailment of the narrator's father?
(a) Alcoholism.
(b) Depression.
(c) Constipation.
(d) Diarrhea.

5. What is the one topic the narrator says is the only thing to which his father can "sink his teeth?"
(a) The New Jersey Turnpike.
(b) The theater.
(c) Life insurance.
(d) The news.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the cleaning woman who works for the narrator's family?

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

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

4. What is the name of the company for whom the narrator's father works?

5. What does the narrator say he's the son in?

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