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

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

3. What does the narrator's mother do when he does something wrong?
(a) Spanks him.
(b) Sends him to his father.
(c) Locks him out of the apartment.
(d) Refuses to feed him.

4. How does the narrator's mother say that Melvin Weiner gave himself colitis?
(a) Eating hamburgers.
(b) Eating pickles.
(c) Eating chazerai.
(d) Eating potato chips.

5. Where did the narrator's father take him once a month when he was young?
(a) The shvitz bath.
(b) The butcher.
(c) The grocery store.
(d) Coney Island.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the narrator's favorite winter meal?

3. How old is the narrator when his testicles recede?

4. Who tells the narrator, "They worship a Jew, do you know that?"

5. Where does the narrator's family move in 1941?

(see the answer key)

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