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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What beach does the narrator's family stay at during the summers?
(a) Bradley Beach.
(b) Neptune Beach.
(c) Atlantic City.
(d) Coney Island.

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

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

4. What is the narrator's name?
(a) Augustine Portnoy.
(b) Jack Portnoy.
(c) Alexander Portnoy.
(d) Andrew Portnoy.

5. What does the narrator use like it "grows in trees" according to his father?
(a) Newspapers.
(b) Toilet paper.
(c) Money.
(d) Gasoline.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the narrator's uncle's store?

2. What sport is the narrator obsessed with?

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

4. How many goyim were in the narrator's graduating class of 250?

5. What does the narrator keep hidden in the basement for the purpose of pleasuring himself?

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