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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's father say one must prepare for?
(a) A rainy day.
(b) The judgment day.
(c) Hannukah.
(d) The fall.

2. What does the narrator's father accuse his son-in-law of being?
(a) A Republican.
(b) A Communist.
(c) A Socialist.
(d) A Democrat.

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

4. 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.

5. What does the narrator say doesn't grow on trees in Chapter 4?
(a) Faith.
(b) Dedication.
(c) Inhibition.
(d) Love.

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

7. Who is the shikse who comes to dinner with the narrator's father?
(a) Mary Ann Wilkes.
(b) Mary McCaffery.
(c) Anne McCaffery.
(d) Elizabeth Joyner.

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

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

10. What is the narrator's name?
(a) Jack Portnoy.
(b) Alexander Portnoy.
(c) Augustine Portnoy.
(d) Andrew Portnoy.

11. What is the name of the narrator's sister's husband?
(a) Morty.
(b) Christopher.
(c) Andrew.
(d) Martin.

12. Where does the narrator live with his family in his childhood?
(a) California.
(b) Florida.
(c) Wisconsin.
(d) New York.

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

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

15. In Chapter 4, where did the narrator break up with his previous girlfriend?
(a) Oslo.
(b) Athens.
(c) The Netherlands.
(d) Rome.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator's family move in 1941?

2. What did the narrator's father encourage him to take a course in in high school?

3. Where did the narrator's father take him once a month when he was young?

4. What was in the letter that Ronald Nimkin left as his final words to his mother?

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

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