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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator's father accuse his son-in-law of being?
(a) A Communist.
(b) A Socialist.
(c) A Democrat.
(d) A Republican.

2. What is the title of Chapter 2?
(a) The Teenage Years.
(b) Adolescence.
(c) Whacking Off.
(d) Days with Mother.

3. What is the narrator's name?
(a) Alexander Portnoy.
(b) Augustine Portnoy.
(c) Andrew Portnoy.
(d) Jack Portnoy.

4. What is the principle ailment of the narrator's father?
(a) Diarrhea.
(b) Constipation.
(c) Depression.
(d) Alcoholism.

5. What is the name of the narrator's father?
(a) Alex.
(b) William.
(c) George.
(d) Jack.

6. What is the title of Chapter 3?
(a) The Jewish Blues.
(b) The High Life.
(c) The War Chamber.
(d) Adulthood.

7. The narrator refers, in Chapter 4, to his father being "a real Jewish" what?
(a) Desperado.
(b) Cowboy.
(c) Rebel.
(d) Clown.

8. What happened to the intellectual journals the protagonist sent to his father?
(a) They were mailed back.
(b) They were put in the library.
(c) They were burned.
(d) They were thrown out.

9. What does the narrator's father sell?
(a) Ties.
(b) Vacuum cleaners.
(c) Insurance.
(d) Bonds.

10. What does the narrator eat which makes his mother weep in Chapter 2?
(a) Hot dogs.
(b) French fries.
(c) Potato chips.
(d) Hamburgers.

11. What does the narrator say that with sex the human imagination runs to?
(a) Z.
(b) The nth level.
(c) Eternity.
(d) Hell.

12. What does the narrator say is "very funny on the stage--but not to live it"?
(a) The macabre.
(b) Life.
(c) Pain.
(d) The parents.

13. What is the term the narrator uses to mean "spank?"
(a) Swat.
(b) Potch.
(c) Spat.
(d) Putch.

14. Where is it "okay" for the narrator's family to eat pork?
(a) His sister's house.
(b) The Synogogue.
(c) At home.
(d) The Chinese restaurant.

15. Who is the shikse who comes to dinner with the narrator's father?
(a) Anne McCaffery.
(b) Elizabeth Joyner.
(c) Mary Ann Wilkes.
(d) Mary McCaffery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What non-kosher food does the narrator have for dinner while out with his sister?

2. What was in the letter that Ronald Nimkin left as his final words to his mother?

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

4. What does the narrator say his desires are in Chapter 4?

5. What do the narrator's parents complain about when they come visit him at his apartment?

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