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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's mother give the cleaning lady for lunch?
(a) Eggs.
(b) Chicken.
(c) Steak.
(d) Tuna.
2. What does the narrator's mother threaten him with when he refuses to eat dinner?
(a) Starvation.
(b) A bread knife.
(c) A gun.
(d) Being grounded.
3. What kind of grades does the young narrator make?
(a) All Fs.
(b) All Ds.
(c) All Cs.
(d) All As.
4. How old is the narrator's previous girlfriend when they broke up?
(a) Twenty-five.
(b) Thirty-one.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Twenty-nine.
5. What happened to the intellectual journals the protagonist sent to his father?
(a) They were burned.
(b) They were put in the library.
(c) They were mailed back.
(d) They were thrown out.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the narrator's mother called in high school?
2. What does the narrator say doesn't grow on trees in Chapter 4?
3. What is the narrator's sister's married name?
4. What is the narrator's favorite winter meal?
5. What is the name of the Company President whose picture hangs in the protagonist's family's hallway?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the story the narrator tells in the beginning of Chapter 4? Why does he do what he does in this story?
2. What does Alex remark about his father's bowel movements in Chapter 4?
3. What does the narrator suspect about the shikse who came to his family's house? Why?
4. Where does Alex's family move during his childhood? When does this happen?
5. Why does the young Alex believe he has cancer?
6. What is the one meaningful conversation the narrator speaks of having with his sister in Chapter 3?
7. Who does the narrator's father hold up as someone to emulate? Why?
8. What does the narrator's mother do to him when he is "bad?" How does he react?
9. What resentments does the narrator recall following the family's move from Jersey City?
10. Who does the main character think all of his teachers are in disguise? Why?
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