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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 prostitute.
(c) A cat.
(d) A married couple.

2. Whom did the narrator invite back to his hotel while on the trip in Chapter 6?
(a) A Jewish Lieutenant.
(b) A prostitute.
(c) A Jewish maid.
(d) A comedian.

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

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

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

6. What does the Monkey threaten to do if the narrator won't marry her?
(a) Jump off the balcony.
(b) Shoot herself.
(c) Leave him.
(d) Kill him.

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

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

9. On what street did the narrator's college girl friend grow up?
(a) Elm.
(b) Smith.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Willow.

10. When did the narrator go home to visit his college girlfriend's family?
(a) Christmas.
(b) Thanksgiving.
(c) New Year's.
(d) Hannukah.

11. What is the name of the radio play the narrator writes in his youth?
(a) Free and Brave.
(b) Let Freedom Ring!
(c) Shikse's Revenge.
(d) Songs of Communism.

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

13. Who was the narrator's girl friend at Antioch?
(a) Jessica Warren.
(b) Mary Jane Reed.
(c) Andrea Williams.
(d) Kay Campbell.

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

15. Where was Kay from?
(a) Missouri.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) Iowa.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator go to Irvington Park to ice skate?

2. Where is the Monkey from?

3. Who does the narrator recite a poem by to the Monkey?

4. What does the narrator say he did after the incident with the prostitute?

5. What is the name of the strip club the narrator speaks of going to when he was underage?

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