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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. When did the narrator go home to visit his college girlfriend's family?
(a) Thanksgiving.
(b) Hannukah.
(c) New Year's.
(d) Christmas.

2. What did the narrator write as his favorite profession when he was in eighth grade?
(a) Actor.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Writer.
(d) Doctor.

3. How old was the Monkey when she arrived in New York?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Twenty-three.

4. What irritates the narrator about the way the Monkey reads?
(a) She reads fast.
(b) She reads out loud.
(c) She moves her lips.
(d) She is slow.

5. To what place does the narrator speak of taking a trip to in Chapter 6?
(a) Italy.
(b) Ireland.
(c) California.
(d) Israel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the names of the "bad boys" with whom the narrator spends time in his youth?

2. What unnerves the narrator about the Monkey?

3. What pet name does the Monkey have for the narrator?

4. Why does the narrator go to Irvington Park to ice skate?

5. Where was Kay from?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What, according to the narrator, are the worst sins he has committed in Chapter 4?

4. What does the narrator say about the Monkey's life story in Chapter 4?

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

6. What does Alex suggest that the Monkey says are his worst sins?

7. Where did Alex go on a trip with Kay? What does Alex say about his experience with Kay's family?

8. What does Alex remark about Israel?

9. What does the narrator recall which might be "the root of his problems" in Chapter 4 regarding his mother?

10. What story does Alex tell of the Monkey with the married couple?

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