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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator remark about the woman whom his father brings home to dinner?
(a) Her skin.
(b) Her ankles.
(c) Her legs.
(d) Her face.

2. What is the narrator's uncle's name?
(a) Hesh.
(b) Woody.
(c) Nate.
(d) Phil.

3. What did the narrator eat that was his sister's?
(a) Spaetzle.
(b) Cake.
(c) Liver.
(d) Pudding.

4. Where is it "okay" for the narrator's family to eat pork?
(a) The Chinese restaurant.
(b) At home.
(c) His sister's house.
(d) The Synogogue.

5. What is Hannah's problem, according to the narrator?
(a) She's depressive.
(b) She's overweight.
(c) She's too smart.
(d) She's coddled.

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

7. What is the narrator's sister's married name?
(a) Feibish.
(b) Schwartz.
(c) Reiner.
(d) Wartzman.

8. What was in the letter that Ronald Nimkin left as his final words to his mother?
(a) To bring the mah-jongg rules to the game tonight.
(b) That he was gay.
(c) That it was her fault he killed himself.
(d) That he hated her.

9. What does the narrator have a difficult time believing in?
(a) Love.
(b) Lust.
(c) Fear.
(d) Sex.

10. What is the name of the narrator's oldest brother?
(a) Horace.
(b) Hymie.
(c) John.
(d) Agnew.

11. Who is the woman whom the narrator has a longer affair with than most?
(a) Tiffany McMann.
(b) Anne Williams.
(c) The Monkey.
(d) Mary Andrews.

12. What does the narrator say he's the son in?
(a) A hell.
(b) A Polish joke.
(c) A Jewish joke.
(d) A nightmare.

13. What is the name of the Company President whose picture hangs in the protagonist's family's hallway?
(a) William S. Woodbury.
(b) Jackson Williams.
(c) N. Everett Lindabury.
(d) Kenneth R. Moriarty.

14. How does the narrator's mother say that Melvin Weiner gave himself colitis?
(a) Eating chazerai.
(b) Eating pickles.
(c) Eating potato chips.
(d) Eating hamburgers.

15. What is the name of the company for whom the narrator's father works?
(a) Williams & Flannagan.
(b) Johnson & Johnson.
(c) Boston & Northeastern Life.
(d) Ernst, Williams & Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's mother do when he does something wrong?

2. What is the term the narrator uses to mean "spank?"

3. How many goyim were in the narrator's graduating class of 250?

4. What is the name of the narrator's father's coworker who bamboozled his mother into eating lobster?

5. What is the narrator's favorite winter meal?

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