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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say his desires are in Chapter 4?
(a) Endless.
(b) Perverse.
(c) Evasions.
(d) Excuses.

2. What do the neighborhood women play with the narrator's mother?
(a) Bingo.
(b) Poker.
(c) Mah-jongg.
(d) Trivial Pursuit.

3. What does the narrator say doesn't grow on trees in Chapter 4?
(a) Dedication.
(b) Love.
(c) Inhibition.
(d) Faith.

4. Where did the narrator eat a seafood dinner with his sister and her fiance in Chapter 4?
(a) Sheepshead Bay.
(b) Brooklyn Heights.
(c) Park Slope.
(d) Jersey City.

5. Why does the narrator's father say his cousin Toby will never want for popularity?
(a) She paints.
(b) She is pretty.
(c) She knows shorthand.
(d) She plays piano.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say is "very funny on the stage--but not to live it"?

3. Who does the narrator now work for in Chapter 4, Part 2?

4. What kind of grades does the young narrator make?

5. What happened to the intellectual journals the protagonist sent to his father?

(see the answer key)

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