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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 sister?
(a) Hetty.
(b) Hannah.
(c) Elizabeth.
(d) Andrea.

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

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

4. What is the narrator's sister's married name?
(a) Feibish.
(b) Reiner.
(c) Schwartz.
(d) Wartzman.

5. What is the term used for a non-Jewish girl?
(a) Shikse.
(b) Goyetta.
(c) Lynx.
(d) Yidka.

6. What is the name of the narrator's father's coworker who bamboozled his mother into eating lobster?
(a) Doyle.
(b) Allen.
(c) Francois.
(d) Flannery.

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

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

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

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

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

12. What is the name of the narrator's father?
(a) Alex.
(b) George.
(c) Jack.
(d) William.

13. What is the narrator's name?
(a) Alexander Portnoy.
(b) Andrew Portnoy.
(c) Augustine Portnoy.
(d) Jack Portnoy.

14. Where is it "okay" for the narrator's family to eat pork?
(a) At home.
(b) His sister's house.
(c) The Chinese restaurant.
(d) The Synogogue.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the intellectual journals the protagonist sent to his father?

2. What does the narrator say is "very funny on the stage--but not to live it"?

3. What does the narrator believe to be cancer in his freshman year of high school?

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

5. What is the name of the narrator's sister's husband?

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