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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 Nathan's father say people read about instead of reading art?
(a) People.
(b) Authors.
(c) Religion.
(d) Animals.

2. What do the college boys call the overseer?
(a) God's Moses.
(b) Jesus' Moses.
(c) Moses' Moses.
(d) Mammon's Moses.

3. Who is Nathan's father's moral mentor?
(a) Lonoff.
(b) Father Quahsay.
(c) Judge Wapter.
(d) Otto Frank.

4. Who is the man that the narrator is going to visit in Chapter 1?
(a) Otto Frank.
(b) E.I. Lonoff.
(c) Dr. Zuckerman.
(d) Nathan Zuckerman.

5. How many drafts of one short story does Amy find?
(a) 37.
(b) 5.
(c) 27.
(d) 15.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what animal does Nathan's father compare Sidney?

2. How long have Nathan and his father not been speaking in Chapter 1?

3. What is playing in Hope's kitchen?

4. What school does Lonoff teach at?

5. What college did Nathan attend?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What response does Zuckerman get when he mentions Lonoff's name at a publishing party?

3. Why is Zuckerman skeptical of the party-goers' analysis of Lonoff?

4. Why does Zuckerman begin writing down the names of everything on Lonoff's bookshelves in his study?

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

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

7. Why is Zuckerman surprised when Lonoff says nothing happens to him during their conversation in Chapter 1?

8. How does Zuckerman describe a typical Lonoff hero?

9. What is Zuckerman carrying in his briefcase that he takes to Lonoff's house?

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

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