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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the neighborhood women play with the narrator's mother?
(a) Bingo.
(b) Trivial Pursuit.
(c) Poker.
(d) Mah-jongg.

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

4. Where does the narrator's family move in 1941?
(a) Jersey City.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) Newark.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator tell his parents he has which makes him spend so much time in the bathroom?

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

3. What does the narrator say was a "mixup" in his house?

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

5. What does the narrator use like it "grows in trees" according to his father?

(see the answer key)

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