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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. Who does the narrator describe as "The Most Unforgettable Character I've Met?"
(a) His mother.
(b) His wife.
(c) His first-grade teacher.
(d) His father.

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

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

4. How old is the narrator in the present in Chapter 4, part 2?
(a) Thirty-three.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Forty.
(d) Thirty-five.

5. What happened to the intellectual journals the protagonist sent to his father?
(a) They were put in the library.
(b) They were thrown out.
(c) They were mailed back.
(d) They were burned.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the company for whom the narrator's father works?

2. What is the name of the narrator's oldest brother?

3. Where is it "okay" for the narrator's family to eat pork?

4. What is not kosher after eating meat?

5. What does the narrator's father sell?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say he grew up to NOT be, at least, in Chapter 4? Why?

3. What does the narrator's father urge him to take lessons in? Why?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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