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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Sunday morning ritual does the narrator talk about in his neighborhood in Chapter 6?
(a) Soccer.
(b) Softball.
(c) Frisbee.
(d) Basketball.

2. How old was the narrator when he broke his leg?
(a) Fourteen.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Seventeen.

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

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

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

6. What does the narrator say that his Rabbi smelled like?
(a) Vodka.
(b) Moth balls.
(c) Bad cologne.
(d) Cigarettes.

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

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

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

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

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

12. Who wrote the essay, "The Most Prevalent Form of Degradation in Erotic Life"?
(a) Freud.
(b) Beckett.
(c) Williams.
(d) Van Gogh.

13. What does the narrator say that Bubbles is growing?
(a) A plant.
(b) A moustache.
(c) Arm hair.
(d) Breasts.

14. What does the doctor tell the young Alex that he has?
(a) Archibald Schlotze Disease.
(b) Osgood Shlatterer's Disease.
(c) Polio.
(d) A broken arm.

15. What does Bubbles call the narrator before he leaves?
(a) "Jerk."
(b) "Kid."
(c) "Kike."
(d) "Nazi."

Short Answer Questions

1. How long was the narrator with the Monkey?

2. When did the narrator go home to visit his college girlfriend's family?

3. What will "take you for all you're worth and leave you in the gutter," according to the protagonist's parents?

4. What is the Monkey's name?

5. How old is the narrator in 1946?

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