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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator's family move in 1941?
(a) Manhattan.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) Jersey City.
(d) Newark.

2. Who does the narrator's father hold up as someone to emulate in life?
(a) Billy Rose.
(b) Walter Winchell.
(c) Dwight Eisenhower.
(d) William Rockefeller.

3. What does the narrator's mother obsess over him catching?
(a) Polio.
(b) Gangrene.
(c) The flu.
(d) A cold.

4. What is the term the narrator uses to mean "spank?"
(a) Potch.
(b) Spat.
(c) Swat.
(d) Putch.

5. What is the narrator's mother's name?
(a) Miranda.
(b) Hannah.
(c) Sophie.
(d) Isabel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sport is the narrator obsessed with?

2. What is the name of the Company President whose picture hangs in the protagonist's family's hallway?

3. What is the principle ailment of the narrator's father?

4. How does the narrator's mother say that Melvin Weiner gave himself colitis?

5. What is the one topic the narrator says is the only thing to which his father can "sink his teeth?"

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