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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Where did the narrator's father take him once a month when he was young?

5. What does the narrator's mother threaten him with when he refuses to eat dinner?

(see the answer key)

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