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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 have a difficult time believing in?
(a) Love.
(b) Sex.
(c) Fear.
(d) Lust.

2. What does the narrator say his desires are in Chapter 4?
(a) Evasions.
(b) Excuses.
(c) Perverse.
(d) Endless.

3. What does the narrator resent being sent to buy at the store for his mother?
(a) Kotex.
(b) Toilet paper.
(c) Dinner.
(d) Birthday cards.

4. What does the narrator tell his parents he has which makes him spend so much time in the bathroom?
(a) A fever.
(b) A sore throat.
(c) Diarrhea.
(d) Constipation.

5. Where does the narrator's family move in 1941?
(a) Jersey City.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) Newark.
(d) Manhattan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sport is the narrator obsessed with?

2. What is the narrator's mother's name?

3. What did the narrator's father encourage him to take a course in in high school?

4. What does the narrator remark about the woman whom his father brings home to dinner?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What frustration does the narrator express in Chapter 4 about his job and his parents' view of it?

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

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

6. What became of the narrator's cousin? Why?

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

8. What does the narrator suspect about the shikse who came to his family's house? Why?

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

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

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