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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 was in the letter that Ronald Nimkin left as his final words to his mother?
(a) That he was gay.
(b) That it was her fault he killed himself.
(c) That he hated her.
(d) To bring the mah-jongg rules to the game tonight.

2. What sport is the narrator obsessed with?
(a) Football.
(b) Basketball.
(c) Soccer.
(d) Baseball.

3. Where is the narrator's uncle's store?
(a) The Bronx.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) Jersey City.
(d) Newark.

4. What does the narrator keep hidden in the basement for the purpose of pleasuring himself?
(a) A jacket.
(b) An apple.
(c) A baseball glove.
(d) A milk bottle.

5. Where does the narrator's mother accuse him of going to eat in Chapter 2?
(a) Katz's Deli.
(b) O'Casey's.
(c) Harold's Hot Dog.
(d) Henry's Burgers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's mother tell him to give to his father in Chapter 4?

2. What is the narrator's mother doing when he sees her menstrual blood?

3. What is the narrator's cousin's name who lives in Newark?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Alex say his parents complain about regarding his sister and her husband in Chapter 4?

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

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

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

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

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

8. Who does the main character think all of his teachers are in disguise? Why?

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

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

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