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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator's mother's name?
(a) Miranda.
(b) Hannah.
(c) Sophie.
(d) Isabel.

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

3. What is Hannah's problem, according to the narrator?
(a) She's coddled.
(b) She's too smart.
(c) She's overweight.
(d) She's depressive.

4. What kind of grades does the young narrator make?
(a) All Ds.
(b) All Cs.
(c) All As.
(d) All Fs.

5. What does the narrator remark about the woman whom his father brings home to dinner?
(a) Her skin.
(b) Her legs.
(c) Her ankles.
(d) Her face.

6. What do the narrator's parents complain about when they come visit him at his apartment?
(a) His rug.
(b) His hair.
(c) His job.
(d) His couch.

7. What is the name of the narrator's father's coworker who bamboozled his mother into eating lobster?
(a) Flannery.
(b) Doyle.
(c) Allen.
(d) Francois.

8. What does the narrator's mother obsess over him catching?
(a) A cold.
(b) The flu.
(c) Gangrene.
(d) Polio.

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

10. What does the narrator's father say one must prepare for?
(a) A rainy day.
(b) The fall.
(c) The judgment day.
(d) Hannukah.

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

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

13. What beach does the narrator's family stay at during the summers?
(a) Coney Island.
(b) Atlantic City.
(c) Neptune Beach.
(d) Bradley Beach.

14. Of what faith is the narrator's family?
(a) Protestant.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Jewish.
(d) Muslim.

15. How old is the narrator's previous girlfriend when they broke up?
(a) Thirty-one.
(b) Nineteen.
(c) Twenty-nine.
(d) Twenty-five.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the narrator's mother say that Melvin Weiner gave himself colitis?

3. How many goyim were in the narrator's graduating class of 250?

4. What is the title of Chapter 3?

5. What is the narrator's sister's married name?

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