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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where had the narrator attended meetings with his future brother-in-law?
(a) The Communist Party.
(b) The American Veterans Committee.
(c) The Bund Society.
(d) The Veterans of Foreign Wars.

3. To what place does the narrator speak of taking a trip to in Chapter 6?
(a) California.
(b) Israel.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Italy.

4. What color hair does the character Naomi have?
(a) Black.
(b) Blond.
(c) Red.
(d) Brown.

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

6. What is the Monkey's name?
(a) Beth Ann Williams.
(b) Mary Jane Reed.
(c) Elizabeth Reed.
(d) Mary Jo Anderson.

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

8. What is one of the books the narrator buys for the Monkey?
(a) The Grapes of Wrath.
(b) Das Kampf.
(c) Animal Farm.
(d) The Kama Sutra.

9. Where had the narrator's girl friend in Connecticut gone to college?
(a) Princeton.
(b) Vassar.
(c) Yale.
(d) NYU.

10. What pet name does the Monkey have for the narrator?
(a) Lovebug.
(b) Ally.
(c) Breakie.
(d) Firefly.

11. Who was the narrator's favorite "hero" in eighth grade?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) Dr. Woolverstein.
(c) George Washington.
(d) Mrs. Portnoy.

12. How old was the Monkey when she arrived in New York?
(a) Twenty-three.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Twenty.

13. What did the narrator write as his favorite profession when he was in eighth grade?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Actor.
(d) Writer.

14. What will "take you for all you're worth and leave you in the gutter," according to the protagonist's parents?
(a) A Jewish girl.
(b) A wife.
(c) A prostitute.
(d) A blondie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Bubbles, according to Babalu?

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

3. What does the narrator say that he and the Monkey took back to their hotel in Rome?

4. What does the narrator nickname the owner of the local candy store at the Sunday rituals?

5. What does the narrator demand from Mandel at the end of Chapter 4?

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