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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 Monkey say that she hates on their drive back?
(a) New York.
(b) The south.
(c) The car.
(d) Vermont.

2. How old is the girl whom the main character has his first sexual experience?
(a) Fourteen.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Eighteen.

3. What does the narrator say that he and the Monkey took back to their hotel in Rome?
(a) A married couple.
(b) A cat.
(c) A prostitute.
(d) A dog.

4. What did the narrator's college girlfriend at Antioch do?
(a) Edit a fashion magazine.
(b) Edit the yearbook.
(c) Taught classes.
(d) Edit a literary magazine.

5. What is the name of the woman whom the narrator dates in Connecticut?
(a) Jennifer McCathers.
(b) Mary Ann Williams.
(c) Sarah Abbott Maulsby.
(d) Elizabeth Stewart.

Short Answer Questions

1. What unnerves the narrator about the Monkey?

2. What does the doctor tell the young Alex that he has?

3. What did the narrator take as a souvenir from Tsin?

4. What does the narrator demand from Mandel at the end of Chapter 4?

5. What will "take you for all you're worth and leave you in the gutter," according to the protagonist's parents?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened with Mandel and Bubbles? What does this prompt the narrator to need to know?

2. How does Alex describe the "Sunday morning ritual" in his neighborhood?

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

4. 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?

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

6. What does the memories of the Monkey conjure in Alex's memory in Chapter 4?

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

8. Who is the second shikse Alex speaks about being involved with in Chapter 5? How is she described?

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

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

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