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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. Where had the narrator attended meetings with his future brother-in-law?
(a) The Communist Party.
(b) The Veterans of Foreign Wars.
(c) The American Veterans Committee.
(d) The Bund Society.

2. Where did American Nazis hold picnics only blocks from the narrator's house?
(a) The parking lot of the Synogogue.
(b) A church.
(c) A beer garden.
(d) A local park.

3. Where does the narrator's family move in 1941?
(a) Newark.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) Jersey City.

4. What does the narrator's mother threaten him with when he refuses to eat dinner?
(a) Being grounded.
(b) A gun.
(c) A bread knife.
(d) Starvation.

5. What does the protagonist worry he will catch from Bubbles?
(a) Herpes.
(b) The flu.
(c) Gonorrhea.
(d) Syphillis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the shikse who comes to dinner with the narrator's father?

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

3. What does the narrator say that he and the Monkey took back to their hotel in Rome?

4. How old is the girl whom the main character has his first sexual experience?

5. What is the name of the radio play the narrator writes in his youth?

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