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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What age is Merry when she and Swede are at a seaside cottage in the book?
(a) Nine.
(b) Eleven.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) Fifteen.

2. What does Merry become temporarily interested in as a child that is associated with her grandmother?
(a) Baptism.
(b) Judaism.
(c) Presbyterianism.
(d) Catholicism.

3. How are Swede's features described in Chapter 1?
(a) Dark.
(b) Ugly.
(c) Brooding.
(d) Gentile.

4. Whom does Swede feel are delighted with the outcome of corrupted children?
(a) Merry.
(b) Radical groups.
(c) Dawn.
(d) His parents.

5. What motto does Merry have written on her wall as a young woman?
(a) Live free or die.
(b) We are the incubation of your mother's nightmares.
(c) Agile, Mobile, Hostile.
(d) We will fight America to the last.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who influenced Merry's thinking about woman revolutionaries and their need to sacrifice?

3. What kind of world does the narrator note that Swede has naturally incorporated himself into?

4. Whom does Swede fail to call after Rita threatens him?

5. What did Merry teach along with revolutionary ideas to Cuban refugees?

(see the answer key)

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