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

2. How old is the narrator in 1946?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Fourteen.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Twelve.

3. What are the names of the "bad boys" with whom the narrator spends time in his youth?
(a) Mendel and Smolka.
(b) Heshie and Jason.
(c) Roger and Mendel.
(d) Kevin and Agnew.

4. Who does the narrator refer to as his "final downfall and humiliation" in Chapter 6?
(a) Julia.
(b) Mary Anne.
(c) Naomi.
(d) Margaret.

5. What name had the narrator picked for himself out of the Essex County phone book?
(a) John Starr.
(b) Alton Peterson.
(c) Billy McCath.
(d) James Anderson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Bubbles, according to Babalu?

2. What nickname did the narrator have for his college girlfriend?

3. What is the title of Chapter 6?

4. How much money did the narrator pay to the prostitute in Italy?

5. What phrase does the narrator say he never said before his trip with the college girlfriend?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does the narrator say about his resentment for his Jewishness and shikses in Chapter 4?

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

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

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