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

2. What is above the bathroom sink in the Girardi home?
(a) A nude calendar.
(b) A picture of Jesus.
(c) A star of David.
(d) A cross.

3. Who had the Monkey previously married?
(a) A Jewish architect.
(b) A French chef.
(c) A French industrialist.
(d) An Italian painter.

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

5. The narrator says in Chapter 6, "Doctor, maybe other patients dream--with me, everything _______."
(a) Means something.
(b) Is dreams.
(c) Ends.
(d) Happens.

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

7. What is the name of the girl whom the protagonist has his first sexual experience?
(a) Sissy Ross.
(b) Bubbles Girardi.
(c) Agatha Rogers.
(d) Betsy Williams.

8. What name had the narrator picked for himself out of the Essex County phone book?
(a) Alton Peterson.
(b) John Starr.
(c) James Anderson.
(d) Billy McCath.

9. How old is the narrator in 1946?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Fourteen.

10. 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 prostitute.
(c) A blondie.
(d) A wife.

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

12. What does the narrator demand from Mandel at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) Details.
(b) Secrecy.
(c) Money.
(d) A prostitute.

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

14. What does the narrator say that the Monkey is, in his dad's terms?
(a) A call girl.
(b) A whore.
(c) A vixen.
(d) A "chippy."

15. What irritates the narrator about the way the Monkey reads?
(a) She moves her lips.
(b) She is slow.
(c) She reads out loud.
(d) She reads fast.

Short Answer Questions

1. What pet name does the Monkey have for the narrator?

2. What does the Monkey threaten to do if the narrator won't marry her?

3. Where was Kay from?

4. What phrase does the narrator say he never said before his trip with the college girlfriend?

5. Who does the last woman the narrator has interest in remind him of?

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