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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 had the Monkey once been?
(a) A painter.
(b) A writer.
(c) A model.
(d) A prostitute.

2. What color hair does the character Naomi have?
(a) Brown.
(b) Black.
(c) Red.
(d) Blond.

3. What does the narrator refer to the bus driver as in Chapter 4, Part 3?
(a) A Goy.
(b) A Polack.
(c) A Jew.
(d) An Irishman.

4. What does the narrator say that his Rabbi smelled like?
(a) Bad cologne.
(b) Moth balls.
(c) Cigarettes.
(d) Vodka.

5. Where does Smolka go on to be a professor as an adult?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Boston University.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Yale.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Monkey fantasize about on the drive back after their trip?

2. What happened to Bubbles, according to Babalu?

3. What is the title of Chapter 6?

4. What did the narrator write as his favorite profession when he was in eighth grade?

5. What is the Monkey's name?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Alex and Kay almost marry? What caused him to end the relationship?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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