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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does Swede use to describe his father as a mix with antagonism?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Pain.
(c) Shame.
(d) Compassion.

2. What does the person Swede calls after he has seen Merry in Chapter 6 tell him to do in regard to Merry?
(a) Go back and get her.
(b) Turn her over to the FBI.
(c) Send her to a psychiatrist.
(d) Forget her.

3. What is the narrator's profession?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A pharmacist.
(d) A writer.

4. How tall is Merry?
(a) Five feet five inches.
(b) Close to six feet.
(c) Four feet nine inches.
(d) Just above five feet.

5. What did Merry study that is the reverence of life?
(a) The Torah.
(b) Ahimsa.
(c) The Koran.
(d) The Bible.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following words does the narrator not use to describe the post-war energy of his neighborhood in Chapter 2?

2. What does Swede remember his mother's face not showing so much of in Chapter 7?

3. Where would Dawn go to swim to get away from others?

4. Where does Swede realize Dawn and Bill will live at the end of Chapter 8?

5. What does Nathan's old girlfriend that he runs into at the reunion tell him she regrets never letting him do?

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