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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the psychiatrist's name to whom the narrator speaks?
(a) Dr. Spielvogel.
(b) Dr. Woolverton.
(c) Dr. Claxton.
(d) Dr. Freud.

3. What does the narrator say he's the son in?
(a) A Jewish joke.
(b) A hell.
(c) A nightmare.
(d) A Polish joke.

4. How many goyim were in the narrator's graduating class of 250?
(a) Eleven.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Five.
(d) Twenty.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the narrator's mother doing when he sees her menstrual blood?

4. What is the name of the cleaning woman who works for the narrator's family?

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

(see the answer key)

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