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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's mother obsess over him catching?
(a) Polio.
(b) The flu.
(c) Gangrene.
(d) A cold.
2. Who does the narrator's father hold up as someone to emulate in life?
(a) Walter Winchell.
(b) Dwight Eisenhower.
(c) Billy Rose.
(d) William Rockefeller.
3. Who does the narrator describe as "The Most Unforgettable Character I've Met?"
(a) His father.
(b) His first-grade teacher.
(c) His wife.
(d) His mother.
4. What does the narrator's mother threaten him with when he refuses to eat dinner?
(a) Being grounded.
(b) A gun.
(c) A bread knife.
(d) Starvation.
5. What did the narrator's father encourage him to take a course in in high school?
(a) Typing.
(b) Home Economics.
(c) Woodworking.
(d) Shorthand.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the narrator say he's the son in?
2. How old is the narrator's previous girlfriend when they broke up?
3. What do the narrator's parents complain about when they come visit him at his apartment?
4. What is Hannah's problem, according to the narrator?
5. What is the name of the narrator's sister's husband?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the narrator's mother believe he has been eating in Chapter 2? How does she react?
2. What are the protagonist's principle memories of his father from early childhood?
3. What were the narrator's father's ambitions for him growing up?
4. How did the narrator's father feel about his job? How did he express his feelings to his family?
5. Who does the narrator's father hold up as someone to emulate? Why?
6. What does the narrator speak of regarding his humiliations with his mother as a child in Chapter 3?
7. Where does Alex's family move during his childhood? When does this happen?
8. Why does the young Alex believe he has cancer?
9. How does the narrator describe his sister in their early years?
10. What resentments does the narrator recall following the family's move from Jersey City?
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