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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator's mother doing when he sees her menstrual blood?
(a) Baking cookies.
(b) Sewing.
(c) Koshering meat.
(d) Serving dinner.

2. What is the term used for a non-Jewish girl?
(a) Lynx.
(b) Goyetta.
(c) Shikse.
(d) Yidka.

3. What does the narrator resent being sent to buy at the store for his mother?
(a) Kotex.
(b) Dinner.
(c) Birthday cards.
(d) Toilet paper.

4. How old is the narrator when his testicles recede?
(a) Fourteen.
(b) Thirteen.
(c) Nine.
(d) Seventeen.

5. Who does the narrator's father hold up as someone to emulate in life?
(a) Dwight Eisenhower.
(b) Walter Winchell.
(c) William Rockefeller.
(d) Billy Rose.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator describe as "The Most Unforgettable Character I've Met?"

2. Where did American Nazis hold picnics only blocks from the narrator's house?

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

4. Of what faith is the narrator's family?

5. What is the name of the narrator's sister's husband?

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