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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 will "take you for all you're worth and leave you in the gutter," according to the protagonist's parents?
(a) A prostitute.
(b) A wife.
(c) A blondie.
(d) A Jewish girl.

2. What college does the Monkey pick up an application for?
(a) Hunter.
(b) Wellsely.
(c) NYU.
(d) SUNY.

3. What feature does the narrator hate of his own?
(a) His nose.
(b) His lips.
(c) His arms.
(d) His eyes.

4. What does the narrator feel after his experience with a woman the first time?
(a) He is deaf.
(b) He is dying.
(c) He is disgusted.
(d) He is going blind.

5. Where had the narrator attended meetings with his future brother-in-law?
(a) The Bund Society.
(b) The Communist Party.
(c) The American Veterans Committee.
(d) The Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was the narrator in 1950?

2. What is above the bathroom sink in the Girardi home?

3. Who had the Monkey previously married?

4. Where did the narrator go on a trip with the Monkey?

5. What Sunday morning ritual does the narrator talk about in his neighborhood in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator retell about the burlesque show in Chapter 4?

2. What is the title of Chapter 5? What does this refer to?

3. What does Alex say about the photo of Jesus in Bubbles's house?

4. When do the narrator's doubts about the Monkey reach a climax?

5. What does the Monkey fantasize about while returning from their trip? How does Alex ruin this mood?

6. Where does Alex speak of taking a trip with the Monkey in Chapter 5? What did the voices of his parents say in his head as he drove?

7. What attracts Alex to Naomi? How does he express his feelings for her?

8. Who does Alex describe as the first of the shikses he had a relationship with? What attracted him to her?

9. What does Alex say he sometimes fantasizes about in Chapter 6?

10. Who is Bubbles? What was she to Alex?

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