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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 college girlfriend at Antioch do?
(a) Taught classes.
(b) Edit a fashion magazine.
(c) Edit a literary magazine.
(d) Edit the yearbook.

2. What are the names of the "bad boys" with whom the narrator spends time in his youth?
(a) Heshie and Jason.
(b) Roger and Mendel.
(c) Kevin and Agnew.
(d) Mendel and Smolka.

3. Who does the narrator recite a poem by to the Monkey?
(a) William Butler Yeats.
(b) William Blake.
(c) Percy Shelley.
(d) Lord Byron.

4. What does Bubbles' father do for a living?
(a) Drives a truck.
(b) Drives a taxi.
(c) Works in the circus.
(d) Drives a bus.

5. What phrase does the narrator say he never said before his trip with the college girlfriend?
(a) Goodnight.
(b) Good morning.
(c) I love you.
(d) Ciao.

6. What happened to Bubbles, according to Babalu?
(a) She killed herself.
(b) She got married.
(c) She was murdered.
(d) She died of syphillis.

7. What does the Monkey fantasize about on the drive back after their trip?
(a) Being in movies.
(b) Being a prostitute.
(c) Being a writer.
(d) Being a grown-up.

8. What does the narrator say that he and the Monkey took back to their hotel in Rome?
(a) A cat.
(b) A married couple.
(c) A prostitute.
(d) A dog.

9. Why does the narrator go to Irvington Park to ice skate?
(a) His sister takes him.
(b) To watch shikses.
(c) To play with friends.
(d) It's by his house.

10. Where does Smolka go on to be a professor as an adult?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Yale.
(c) Boston University.
(d) Princeton.

11. What is the title of Chapter 6?
(a) Back Home.
(b) The Final Years.
(c) Forgotten Days.
(d) In Exile.

12. What does the narrator refer to the bus driver as in Chapter 4, Part 3?
(a) A Polack.
(b) An Irishman.
(c) A Jew.
(d) A Goy.

13. How old was the narrator in 1950?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Sixteen.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Seventeen.

14. Who does the narrator refer to as his "final downfall and humiliation" in Chapter 6?
(a) Julia.
(b) Margaret.
(c) Naomi.
(d) Mary Anne.

15. What feature does the narrator hate of his own?
(a) His eyes.
(b) His lips.
(c) His arms.
(d) His nose.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the renowned columnist whom the narrator speaks of having shaken his hand?

2. Whom did the narrator invite back to his hotel while on the trip in Chapter 6?

3. Where had the narrator's girl friend in Connecticut gone to college?

4. What college does the Monkey pick up an application for?

5. What does the narrator feel after his experience with a woman the first time?

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