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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How far had Merry had been working from Swede's glove factory when Rita contacts him in Chapter 5?
(a) One hour.
(b) Thirty minutes.
(c) Five minutes.
(d) Ten minutes.

2. What does Swede learn that Merry has become in Chapter 6?
(a) A Jain.
(b) A Baptist.
(c) A Buddhist.
(d) A Hindu.

3. What does Dawn blame along with Swede for her poor condition after Merry's disappearance?
(a) Her parents.
(b) Merry.
(c) The Miss New Jersey Pageant.
(d) Her brother.

4. What kind of condition had Dawn been suffering for five years after Merry's disappearance?
(a) Schizophrenia.
(b) Psychosis
(c) Suicidal depression.
(d) Alcoholism.

5. How does Bill take Swede's comment that Bill would be happy living in his house in Chapter 9?
(a) As a slip of the tongue.
(b) As a mistake.
(c) As a joke.
(d) As hatefulness.

6. What is Merry able to explain Jainism to Swede without doing?
(a) Stuttering.
(b) Yelling.
(c) Sneering.
(d) None of the answers is correct.

7. What proceedings are Swede's parents watching on TV in Chapter 7?
(a) Watergate.
(b) The Kennedy inauguration.
(c) The Bay of Pigs.
(d) The Johnson inauguration.

8. What did Lou often blame for Merry's bad behavior in addition to her mother?
(a) Swede.
(b) Her Catholic baptism.
(c) Dawn.
(d) Her Judaism.

9. What food does Swede accidentally refer to as Merry's rather than Dawn's in Chapter 7?
(a) Onions.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Tomatoes.
(d) Apples.

10. Who influenced Merry's thinking about woman revolutionaries and their need to sacrifice?
(a) Gandhi.
(b) Angela Davis.
(c) Frantz Fanon.
(d) Mother Theresa.

11. Where does Swede take a phone call from at the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) Czechoslovakia.
(b) Belarus.
(c) Poland.
(d) Russia.

12. What does Swede decide that Sheila is rather than omniscient?
(a) Mean.
(b) Kind.
(c) Cold.
(d) Hateful.

13. What does Marcia say that without transgression there is none of in Chapter 8?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Kindness.
(c) Love.
(d) Happiness.

14. Who is the name of the person at the gas station that the narrator remembers the day the war ended?
(a) Bill.
(b) Ira.
(c) Mac.
(d) Bucky.

15. Who does Swede see having sex in the kitchen of his house at the end of Chapter 7?
(a) Dawn and Barry.
(b) Dawn and Bill.
(c) Bill and Marcia.
(d) Jim and Sylvia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lou concerned about along with children in Chapter 8?

2. What does Marcia compare Dawn's beauty pageant to in Chapter 8?

3. What does the narrator say that Bill always challenged in Dawn?

4. What is the name of a Jewish man who praises Swede and pressures him to join a local Jewish organization?

5. How many vows of renunciation does Merry say she has taken in the book?

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