Portnoy's Complaint Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Portnoy's Complaint Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is all the unconscious can do, according to Freud?
(a) Loathe.
(b) Want.
(c) Hate.
(d) Fear.

2. What did the narrator's father encourage him to take a course in in high school?
(a) Typing.
(b) Woodworking.
(c) Home Economics.
(d) Shorthand.

3. Who does the narrator now work for in Chapter 4, Part 2?
(a) The Police Commissioner.
(b) The Mayor.
(c) The New York Bar Association.
(d) The DA's office.

4. What is the name of the narrator's oldest brother?
(a) Horace.
(b) John.
(c) Agnew.
(d) Hymie.

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

6. Who does the narrator's father hold up as someone to emulate in life?
(a) Dwight Eisenhower.
(b) Walter Winchell.
(c) William Rockefeller.
(d) Billy Rose.

7. What was the name of the boy who the narrator talks of having committed suicide?
(a) Ronald Nimkin.
(b) James Schwartz.
(c) Andrew Sparks.
(d) Wilbur Schwartzman.

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

9. Where is the narrator's uncle's store?
(a) Newark.
(b) Jersey City.
(c) The Bronx.
(d) Brooklyn.

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

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

12. Who is the woman whom the narrator has a longer affair with than most?
(a) The Monkey.
(b) Mary Andrews.
(c) Tiffany McMann.
(d) Anne Williams.

13. What does the narrator use like it "grows in trees" according to his father?
(a) Newspapers.
(b) Gasoline.
(c) Toilet paper.
(d) Money.

14. Where did the narrator eat a seafood dinner with his sister and her fiance in Chapter 4?
(a) Park Slope.
(b) Brooklyn Heights.
(c) Jersey City.
(d) Sheepshead Bay.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's father sell?

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

3. What does the narrator's father say one must prepare for?

4. What is the narrator's cousin's name who lives in Newark?

5. Who is the narrator sitting next to on the bus in Chapter 4?

(see the answer keys)

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