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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 say doesn't grow on trees in Chapter 4?
(a) Dedication.
(b) Love.
(c) Inhibition.
(d) Faith.
2. What is the narrator's cousin's name who lives in Newark?
(a) William.
(b) Humphry.
(c) Harold.
(d) Horace.
3. What is the one topic the narrator says is the only thing to which his father can "sink his teeth?"
(a) The theater.
(b) The news.
(c) The New Jersey Turnpike.
(d) Life insurance.
4. What does the narrator say is "very funny on the stage--but not to live it"?
(a) Life.
(b) The parents.
(c) Pain.
(d) The macabre.
5. What does the narrator resent being sent to buy at the store for his mother?
(a) Dinner.
(b) Toilet paper.
(c) Birthday cards.
(d) Kotex.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the narrator's father hold the wrong way?
2. Where does the narrator's mother accuse him of going to eat in Chapter 2?
3. The narrator claims in Chapter 4 that he brings his parents nothing but what?
4. What is Hannah's problem, according to the narrator?
5. What is the title of Chapter 2?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the narrator suspect about the shikse who came to his family's house? Why?
2. What resentments does the narrator recall following the family's move from Jersey City?
3. How did the narrator's father feel about his job? How did he express his feelings to his family?
4. What does Alex say his parents complain about regarding his sister and her husband in Chapter 4?
5. What are the protagonist's principle memories of his father from early childhood?
6. What does the narrator's mother believe he has been eating in Chapter 2? How does she react?
7. Why does the young Alex believe he has cancer?
8. What body-related incidents does the narrator recall in Chapter 3?
9. What is Chapter 2 primarily about?
10. What were the narrator's father's ambitions for him growing up?
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