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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does the narrator say he's the son in?
(a) A nightmare.
(b) A Polish joke.
(c) A Jewish joke.
(d) A hell.

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

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

11. How old is the narrator in the present in Chapter 4, part 2?
(a) Forty.
(b) Thirty-three.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Thirty-five.

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

13. Why does the narrator's father say his cousin Toby will never want for popularity?
(a) She paints.
(b) She is pretty.
(c) She knows shorthand.
(d) She plays piano.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the narrator's mother's name?

3. What does the narrator say that with sex the human imagination runs to?

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

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

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