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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 tell him to give to his father in Chapter 4?
(a) A tie.
(b) A card.
(c) A kiss.
(d) A loan.

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

3. How many Christian children are in the high school where the narrator attends?
(a) Two.
(b) Seven.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Twelve.

4. What is the one topic the narrator says is the only thing to which his father can "sink his teeth?"
(a) The New Jersey Turnpike.
(b) Life insurance.
(c) The news.
(d) The theater.

5. What does the narrator say was a "mixup" in his house?
(a) The sexes of his parents.
(b) The children.
(c) The dog.
(d) Religion.

6. What does the narrator believe to be cancer in his freshman year of high school?
(a) A freckle.
(b) A mole.
(c) A fever blister.
(d) A bruise.

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

8. How old was the narrator when he broke his knee?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Sixteen.
(c) Seventeen.
(d) Fourteen.

9. What does the narrator keep hidden in the basement for the purpose of pleasuring himself?
(a) A milk bottle.
(b) A baseball glove.
(c) An apple.
(d) A jacket.

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

11. What does the narrator resent being sent to buy at the store for his mother?
(a) Birthday cards.
(b) Toilet paper.
(c) Dinner.
(d) Kotex.

12. Who tells the narrator, "They worship a Jew, do you know that?"
(a) His mother.
(b) His father.
(c) Morty.
(d) His sister.

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

14. Where does the narrator live with his family in his childhood?
(a) Wisconsin.
(b) Florida.
(c) New York.
(d) California.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator have a difficult time believing in?

2. Who does the narrator now work for in Chapter 4, Part 2?

3. What does the narrator's father accuse his son-in-law of being?

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

5. What was the name of the boy who the narrator talks of having committed suicide?

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