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 does the narrator's mother give the cleaning lady for lunch?
(a) Steak.
(b) Eggs.
(c) Chicken.
(d) Tuna.

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

3. In Chapter 4, where did the narrator break up with his previous girlfriend?
(a) The Netherlands.
(b) Oslo.
(c) Rome.
(d) Athens.

4. What is the name of the narrator's sister?
(a) Andrea.
(b) Elizabeth.
(c) Hannah.
(d) Hetty.

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

6. What do the neighborhood women play with the narrator's mother?
(a) Mah-jongg.
(b) Poker.
(c) Trivial Pursuit.
(d) Bingo.

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

8. What is not kosher after eating meat?
(a) Cake.
(b) Dessert.
(c) Cream in coffee.
(d) Jello.

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

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

11. What is the name of the company for whom the narrator's father works?
(a) Johnson & Johnson.
(b) Boston & Northeastern Life.
(c) Ernst, Williams & Johnson.
(d) Williams & Flannagan.

12. What sport is the narrator obsessed with?
(a) Football.
(b) Soccer.
(c) Baseball.
(d) Basketball.

13. What is the narrator's uncle's name?
(a) Woody.
(b) Hesh.
(c) Nate.
(d) Phil.

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

15. What is the name of the cleaning woman who works for the narrator's family?
(a) Esther.
(b) Dorothy.
(c) Mary.
(d) Hannah.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the term the narrator uses to mean "spank?"

3. What does the narrator's mother obsess over him catching?

4. How many Christian children are in the high school where the narrator attends?

5. What does the narrator tell his parents he has which makes him spend so much time in the bathroom?

(see the answer keys)

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