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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 is the name of the girl whom the narrator watches doing figure eights on the ice rink?
(a) Jennifer Rogers.
(b) Elizabeth McCourt.
(c) Peggy Ann O'Brien.
(d) Ashley Rogers.

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

3. What happened to Bubbles, according to Babalu?
(a) She died of syphillis.
(b) She killed herself.
(c) She was murdered.
(d) She got married.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What college does the Monkey pick up an application for?

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

3. What does Bubbles call the narrator before he leaves?

4. What does the narrator feel after his experience with a woman the first time?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

5. How did Alex feel about having "a real" relationship with the Monkey?

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

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

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

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

10. How does the narrator's first sexual experience occur with Bubbles?

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