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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 remark about the woman whom his father brings home to dinner?
(a) Her ankles.
(b) Her face.
(c) Her legs.
(d) Her skin.

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

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

4. Who does the narrator now work for in Chapter 4, Part 2?
(a) The DA's office.
(b) The New York Bar Association.
(c) The Police Commissioner.
(d) The Mayor.

5. What happened to the intellectual journals the protagonist sent to his father?
(a) They were put in the library.
(b) They were mailed back.
(c) They were burned.
(d) They were thrown out.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator's sister's married name?

2. The narrator refers, in Chapter 4, to his father being "a real Jewish" what?

3. How old is the narrator in the present in Chapter 4, part 2?

4. What does the narrator tell his parents he has which makes him spend so much time in the bathroom?

5. How many Christian children are in the high school where the narrator attends?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who does the main character think all of his teachers are in disguise? Why?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What were the narrator's father's ambitions for him growing up?

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