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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 happened to Bubbles, according to Babalu?
(a) She died of syphillis.
(b) She killed herself.
(c) She got married.
(d) She was murdered.

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 is above the bathroom sink in the Girardi home?
(a) A cross.
(b) A picture of Jesus.
(c) A star of David.
(d) A nude calendar.

4. Where does Smolka go on to be a professor as an adult?
(a) Yale.
(b) Boston University.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Princeton.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Monkey fantasize about on the drive back after their trip?

2. What does the protagonist worry he will catch from Bubbles?

3. What does the narrator say that the Monkey is, in his dad's terms?

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

5. What is the name of the narrator's father's coworker who bamboozled his mother into eating lobster?

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