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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. The narrator claims in Chapter 4 that he brings his parents nothing but what?
(a) Grief.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Rage.
(d) Irritation.

2. What is the name of the narrator's sister?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Andrea.
(c) Hannah.
(d) Hetty.

3. What do the neighborhood women play with the narrator's mother?
(a) Mah-jongg.
(b) Trivial Pursuit.
(c) Poker.
(d) Bingo.

4. What is all the unconscious can do, according to Freud?
(a) Fear.
(b) Hate.
(c) Want.
(d) Loathe.

5. Where is it "okay" for the narrator's family to eat pork?
(a) The Synogogue.
(b) His sister's house.
(c) At home.
(d) The Chinese restaurant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator have a difficult time believing in?

2. What does the narrator's father say one must prepare for?

3. What kind of grades does the young narrator make?

4. Who tells the narrator, "They worship a Jew, do you know that?"

5. What was the narrator's mother called in high school?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What story does Alex tell about his mother and lobster?

3. Who does the narrator's father hold up as someone to emulate? Why?

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

5. What does the narrator's mother believe he has been eating in Chapter 2? How does she react?

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

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

8. How did the narrator's father feel about his job? How did he express his feelings to his family?

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

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

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