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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Neil wants to phone Brenda in Short Hills, New Jersey, where does he find the Short Hills phone directory?
(a) Holding up Anut Gladys' dresser.
(b) Out in the garage.
(c) Under a laundry basket.
(d) At the next door neighbor's house.

2. What does Brenda ask about his cousin, Doris?
(a) Where she is attending school.
(b) What sorority she is a member of.
(c) What she looks like.
(d) If she has a fiance.

3. When Neil does not answer when Brenda asks if he loves her, what does Brenda say?
(a) She says she knows he does.
(b) She says she will sleep with him anyway.
(c) She asks if the cat had gotten his tongue.
(d) She says for him to leave until he makes up his mind.

4. What is Aunt Gladys' personal charity?
(a) The homeless in Newark.
(b) The poor Jews in Palestine.
(c) Poor older Jews in nursing homes.
(d) Jewish orphans in Russia.

5. What do Aunt Gladys and Mrs. Patimkin have in common that is different from Neil?
(a) The women are not patriotic but Neil is.
(b) The women are not religious but Neil is.
(c) The women are very class and money conscious but Neil is not.
(d) The women know their family roots but Neil does not.

Short Answer Questions

1. What shows that Neill is not a part of Brenda's social set?

2. How often is Neil seeing Brenda now?

3. What indicates that Brenda and her family are concerned with status and appearance?

4. What antic does Neil perform at the pool?

5. Why does Neil tell Aunt Gladys he is going to the Patimkin's house for a week?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Neil see Mr. Patimkin when he meets him at dinner?

2. What does Brenda do that suggests she is very infatuated with Neil?

3. Discuss the competitive nature of Brenda.

4. How does Aunt Gladys show that she is somewhat isolated in her Newark Jewish community?

5. Besides his week at Brenda's house, what else does Neil have to look forward to?

6. How does the reader get introduced to ten-year-old Julie Patimkin?

7. Contrast Aunt Gladys and Mrs. Patimkin from the conversation Gladys and Neil have about the Patimkin house.

8. Describe Brenda's neighborhood in Short Hills.

9. What is a noticeable difference between dinner at the Patimkins' house and dinner in the Klugman house?

10. How has the relationship developed between Neil and Brenda?

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