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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 religion are Lonoff and Nathan?
(a) Jewish.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Christian.
(d) Muslim.

2. What Norwegian writer is referenced in the letter?
(a) Henrik Ibsen.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Kafka.
(d) Lonoff.

3. What battleship was Sidney on, according to Nathan's story?
(a) Kansas.
(b) Missouri.
(c) Alaska.
(d) Alabama.

4. Where does Lonoff tell Nathan that Amy is from?
(a) England.
(b) Canada.
(c) Australia.
(d) France.

5. What game does Sidney teach Nathan and his brother?
(a) Blackjack.
(b) Solitaire.
(c) Craps.
(d) Rolling dice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Lonoff's friends call him?

2. What does Nathan's father say people read about instead of reading art?

3. What is pinned to Lonoff's study wall?

4. Where do some people think Lonoff was writing from?

5. Lonoff expresses distaste about the range of his what in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Zuckerman family's typical Sunday brunch.

2. What is surprising to Zuckerman about the typewriter in Lonoff's study?

3. What does Zuckerman tell Lonoff when he asks Zuckerman about his life in Chapter 1?

4. Describe the girl-woman Zuckerman sees at Lonoff's house in Chapter 1.

5. What is pinned to the bulletin board in Lonoff's office?

6. What earlier connection does Zuckerman have to Judge Wapter?

7. How does the trouble between Zuckerman and his father begin, according to Zuckerman in Chapter 2?

8. Describe the man Nathan Zuckerman meets in the beginning of Chapter 1.

9. Why does Zuckerman say he stays up in Lonoff's study?

10. Why does Zuckerman read Henry James' "The Middle Years" twice in one night?

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