Portnoy's Complaint Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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Portnoy's Complaint Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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

2. How old is the narrator when his testicles recede?
(a) Nine.
(b) Fourteen.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) Seventeen.

3. What is the name of the narrator's father's coworker who bamboozled his mother into eating lobster?
(a) Doyle.
(b) Flannery.
(c) Allen.
(d) Francois.

4. What does the narrator's father say one must prepare for?
(a) A rainy day.
(b) The fall.
(c) Hannukah.
(d) The judgment day.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator's uncle's name?

2. Where does the narrator's mother accuse him of going to eat in Chapter 2?

3. What does the narrator use like it "grows in trees" according to his father?

4. What is Hannah's problem, according to the narrator?

5. Where did the narrator's father take him once a month when he was young?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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