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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many goyim were in the narrator's graduating class of 250?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Eleven.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Five.

3. What does the narrator's mother tell him to give to his father in Chapter 4?
(a) A kiss.
(b) A loan.
(c) A card.
(d) A tie.

4. How old is the narrator's previous girlfriend when they broke up?
(a) Nineteen.
(b) Twenty-nine.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) Thirty-one.

5. What is the title of Chapter 3?
(a) The High Life.
(b) The Jewish Blues.
(c) Adulthood.
(d) The War Chamber.

6. How old was the narrator when he broke his knee?
(a) Seventeen.
(b) Fourteen.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Twenty.

7. What does the narrator use like it "grows in trees" according to his father?
(a) Toilet paper.
(b) Money.
(c) Gasoline.
(d) Newspapers.

8. What did the narrator's father encourage him to take a course in in high school?
(a) Woodworking.
(b) Typing.
(c) Home Economics.
(d) Shorthand.

9. What does the narrator tell his parents he has which makes him spend so much time in the bathroom?
(a) Constipation.
(b) Diarrhea.
(c) A sore throat.
(d) A fever.

10. How old is the narrator in the present in Chapter 4, part 2?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Thirty-three.
(c) Thirty-five.
(d) Forty.

11. What is the title of Chapter 2?
(a) The Teenage Years.
(b) Days with Mother.
(c) Adolescence.
(d) Whacking Off.

12. What was the narrator's mother called in high school?
(a) Red.
(b) Rosie.
(c) Soapie.
(d) Girly.

13. What kind of grades does the young narrator make?
(a) All Ds.
(b) All As.
(c) All Fs.
(d) All Cs.

14. What does the narrator's father sell?
(a) Ties.
(b) Insurance.
(c) Vacuum cleaners.
(d) Bonds.

15. What is the narrator's favorite winter meal?
(a) Goulash.
(b) Lamb stew.
(c) Spaghetti.
(d) Beef stew.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator believe to be cancer in his freshman year of high school?

2. What does the narrator say his desires are in Chapter 4?

3. What non-kosher food does the narrator have for dinner while out with his sister?

4. What does the narrator say he's the son in?

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

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