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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the narrator say doesn't grow on trees in Chapter 4?
(a) Love.
(b) Faith.
(c) Dedication.
(d) Inhibition.

5. The narrator claims in Chapter 4 that he brings his parents nothing but what?
(a) Rage.
(b) Grief.
(c) Irritation.
(d) Sorrow.

6. What does the narrator's mother do when he does something wrong?
(a) Spanks him.
(b) Locks him out of the apartment.
(c) Refuses to feed him.
(d) Sends him to his father.

7. What is the name of the Company President whose picture hangs in the protagonist's family's hallway?
(a) N. Everett Lindabury.
(b) William S. Woodbury.
(c) Jackson Williams.
(d) Kenneth R. Moriarty.

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

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

10. How does the narrator's mother say that Melvin Weiner gave himself colitis?
(a) Eating hamburgers.
(b) Eating potato chips.
(c) Eating pickles.
(d) Eating chazerai.

11. What is the narrator's favorite winter meal?
(a) Beef stew.
(b) Lamb stew.
(c) Goulash.
(d) Spaghetti.

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

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

14. What does the narrator's mother tell him to give to his father in Chapter 4?
(a) A tie.
(b) A kiss.
(c) A loan.
(d) A card.

15. Where did the narrator's father take him once a month when he was young?
(a) The grocery store.
(b) The shvitz bath.
(c) The butcher.
(d) Coney Island.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator refers, in Chapter 4, to his father being "a real Jewish" what?

3. What is Hannah's problem, according to the narrator?

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

5. Who tells the narrator, "They worship a Jew, do you know that?"

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