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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What about Merry is Swede more patient and accepting of than her mother is?
(a) Her depression.
(b) Her lisping.
(c) Her stuttering.
(d) Her shyness.

2. Who is the recipient of a 14-year-old girl's kidney at Nathan's class reunion?
(a) Marvin Lieb.
(b) Julius Pincus.
(c) Jerry Levov.
(d) Jim Dwyer.

3. What is the name of the black worker at Swede's factory that stays with him during the riots?
(a) Joy.
(b) Vicky.
(c) Dawn.
(d) Merry.

4. What does Rita tell Swede that she needs to get of Merry's during their first meeting?
(a) Her Audrey Hepburn scrapbook.
(b) Money.
(c) Her stuttering diary.
(d) Some clothes.

5. What kind of world does the narrator note that Swede has naturally incorporated himself into?
(a) Poor.
(b) Jewish.
(c) Wasp.
(d) Wealthy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Swede wonder is connected with his preoccupations regarding Merry at the end of Chapter 4?

2. What does Swede's brother refer to him as because he cannot take the brutality of the world?

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

4. What motto does Merry have written on her wall as a young woman?

5. What sport did the narrator play with Swede's younger brother?

(see the answer key)

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