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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Pages 60 - 89.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Swede's athletic performance help his community forget about?
(a) The plague.
(b) Death.
(c) The war.
(d) Their debt.

2. What does the narrator say the adolescents had respect for in regard to their parents in his neighborhood?
(a) Sexual freedom.
(b) Their productivity.
(c) Intellect.
(d) Their values.

3. What does the narrator meet with Swede to write about near the end of Chapter 1?
(a) An obituary.
(b) A profile on him.
(c) A story on his daughter Merry.
(d) A tribute to his father.

4. Whom does Jerry not say Swede had to live with that caused pressure on him when talking to Nathan at the class reunion?
(a) Mean son.
(b) Unsatisfiable father.
(c) Unsatisfiable wife.
(d) Monster daughter.

5. What sport did the narrator play with Swede's younger brother?
(a) Football.
(b) Tennis.
(c) Baseball.
(d) Ping pong.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jerry say Swede lacked and is what killed him when talking with Nathan at the class reunion?

2. What is the name of Swede's father?

3. What is the name of the neighborhood in which Swede grew up?

4. What does Jerry tell Nathan that Swede fought to keep in Chapter 3?

5. What does Swede's daughter do to the local post office and general store as a radical stunt?

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