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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 did the narrator eat that was his sister's?
(a) Liver.
(b) Cake.
(c) Pudding.
(d) Spaetzle.

2. What is the narrator's mother's name?
(a) Hannah.
(b) Isabel.
(c) Sophie.
(d) Miranda.

3. What does the narrator's mother tell him to give to his father in Chapter 4?
(a) A loan.
(b) A kiss.
(c) A tie.
(d) A card.

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

5. What is the term used for a non-Jewish girl?
(a) Shikse.
(b) Yidka.
(c) Goyetta.
(d) Lynx.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's father sell?

2. What is the name of the narrator's father?

3. What is the name of the narrator's sister's husband?

4. What does the narrator say he's the son in?

5. Who does the narrator's father hold up as someone to emulate in life?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Alex say his parents complain about regarding his sister and her husband in Chapter 4?

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

4. What does the narrator's father urge him to take lessons in? Why?

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

6. What does the narrator's mother do to him when he is "bad?" How does he react?

7. About what do the narrator's parents coddle him regarding his knee in Chapter 4?

8. What body-related incidents does the narrator recall in Chapter 3?

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

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

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