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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was in the letter that Ronald Nimkin left as his final words to his mother?
(a) That it was her fault he killed himself.
(b) To bring the mah-jongg rules to the game tonight.
(c) That he was gay.
(d) That he hated her.

3. What does the narrator's mother do when he does something wrong?
(a) Sends him to his father.
(b) Spanks him.
(c) Refuses to feed him.
(d) Locks him out of the apartment.

4. What is the one topic the narrator says is the only thing to which his father can "sink his teeth?"
(a) The news.
(b) Life insurance.
(c) The New Jersey Turnpike.
(d) The theater.

5. What does the narrator compare the shikse's hair to on the bus?
(a) Oil.
(b) Roses.
(c) Flax.
(d) Wine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bubbles call the narrator before he leaves?

2. What does the narrator say was a "mixup" in his house?

3. How old is the narrator when his testicles recede?

4. What is Hannah's problem, according to the narrator?

5. What does the narrator eat which makes his mother weep in Chapter 2?

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