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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say was a "mixup" in his house?
(a) The dog.
(b) The sexes of his parents.
(c) The children.
(d) Religion.

2. What does the narrator's mother obsess over him catching?
(a) Polio.
(b) Gangrene.
(c) A cold.
(d) The flu.

3. What does the narrator's mother do when he does something wrong?
(a) Sends him to his father.
(b) Locks him out of the apartment.
(c) Refuses to feed him.
(d) Spanks him.

4. Why does the narrator's father say his cousin Toby will never want for popularity?
(a) She plays piano.
(b) She paints.
(c) She is pretty.
(d) She knows shorthand.

5. What is the title of Chapter 4?
(a) Totally Crazy.
(b) Woman Crazy.
(c) Insanity.
(d) Cunt Crazy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the narrator's father's coworker who bamboozled his mother into eating lobster?

2. What does the narrator's mother tell him to give to his father in Chapter 4?

3. What does the narrator eat which makes his mother weep in Chapter 2?

4. Where did the narrator's father take him once a month when he was young?

5. What is the title of Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. What became of the narrator's cousin? Why?

2. How does the narrator describe his sister in their early years?

3. What does the narrator speak of regarding his humiliations with his mother as a child in Chapter 3?

4. What is the one meaningful conversation the narrator speaks of having with his sister in Chapter 3?

5. Where does the narrator's father work? What line of business is he in? Where is his "route?"

6. What resentments does the narrator recall following the family's move from Jersey City?

7. What does Alex remark about his father's bowel movements in Chapter 4?

8. What is the story the narrator tells in the beginning of Chapter 4? Why does he do what he does in this story?

9. What is Chapter 2 primarily about?

10. Who is the shikse who came to the young Alex's family's home? Why?

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