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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. How many Christian children are in the high school where the narrator attends?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Seven.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Two.

2. What is the narrator's cousin's name who lives in Newark?
(a) William.
(b) Humphry.
(c) Horace.
(d) Harold.

3. What does the narrator say that with sex the human imagination runs to?
(a) Hell.
(b) The nth level.
(c) Eternity.
(d) Z.

4. What does the narrator keep hidden in the basement for the purpose of pleasuring himself?
(a) A jacket.
(b) A milk bottle.
(c) An apple.
(d) A baseball glove.

5. Where does the narrator's mother accuse him of going to eat in Chapter 2?
(a) Katz's Deli.
(b) Henry's Burgers.
(c) O'Casey's.
(d) Harold's Hot Dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's mother give the cleaning lady for lunch?

2. What beach does the narrator's family stay at during the summers?

3. What does the narrator say his desires are in Chapter 4?

4. What happened to the intellectual journals the protagonist sent to his father?

5. Where does the narrator's family move in 1941?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where does Alex's family move during his childhood? When does this happen?

3. What story does the narrator tell about Ronald Nimkin?

4. What is Chapter 2 primarily about?

5. What does the narrator say he grew up to NOT be, at least, in Chapter 4? Why?

6. What are the protagonist's principle memories of his father from early childhood?

7. Why does the young Alex believe he has cancer?

8. What do Alex and his parents argue about after their dinner in Chapter 4?

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

10. How does the narrator feel about the laws of Judaism?

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