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

2. Where had the narrator's girl friend in Connecticut gone to college?
(a) Vassar.
(b) Yale.
(c) Princeton.
(d) NYU.

3. What college does the Monkey pick up an application for?
(a) Hunter.
(b) SUNY.
(c) Wellsely.
(d) NYU.

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

5. What does the Monkey fantasize about on the drive back after their trip?
(a) Being a prostitute.
(b) Being in movies.
(c) Being a grown-up.
(d) Being a writer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom did the narrator invite back to his hotel while on the trip in Chapter 6?

3. What irritates the narrator about the way the Monkey reads?

4. What is above the bathroom sink in the Girardi home?

5. How old is the girl whom the main character has his first sexual experience?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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