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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 title of Chapter 2?
(a) Days with Mother.
(b) Adolescence.
(c) The Teenage Years.
(d) Whacking Off.

2. What does the narrator believe to be cancer in his freshman year of high school?
(a) A bruise.
(b) A freckle.
(c) A mole.
(d) A fever blister.

3. What is the narrator's cousin's name who lives in Newark?
(a) Harold.
(b) Humphry.
(c) Horace.
(d) William.

4. What happened to the intellectual journals the protagonist sent to his father?
(a) They were put in the library.
(b) They were thrown out.
(c) They were mailed back.
(d) They were burned.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's mother do when he does something wrong?

2. What does the narrator's father sell?

3. What is the name of the Company President whose picture hangs in the protagonist's family's hallway?

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

5. How does the narrator's mother say that Melvin Weiner gave himself colitis?

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