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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the narrator write as his favorite profession when he was in eighth grade?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Writer.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Actor.

2. What pet name does the Monkey have for the narrator?
(a) Breakie.
(b) Lovebug.
(c) Ally.
(d) Firefly.

3. What name had the narrator picked for himself out of the Essex County phone book?
(a) Alton Peterson.
(b) Billy McCath.
(c) John Starr.
(d) James Anderson.

4. What unnerves the narrator about the Monkey?
(a) Her handwriting.
(b) Her worrying.
(c) Her spending money.
(d) Her cooking.

5. What does the protagonist worry he will catch from Bubbles?
(a) Gonorrhea.
(b) Herpes.
(c) Syphillis.
(d) The flu.

6. When did the narrator go home to visit his college girlfriend's family?
(a) Hannukah.
(b) New Year's.
(c) Thanksgiving.
(d) Christmas.

7. What is above the bathroom sink in the Girardi home?
(a) A star of David.
(b) A cross.
(c) A picture of Jesus.
(d) A nude calendar.

8. What are the names of the "bad boys" with whom the narrator spends time in his youth?
(a) Heshie and Jason.
(b) Roger and Mendel.
(c) Mendel and Smolka.
(d) Kevin and Agnew.

9. What happened to Bubbles, according to Babalu?
(a) She died of syphillis.
(b) She killed herself.
(c) She got married.
(d) She was murdered.

10. Where had the narrator attended meetings with his future brother-in-law?
(a) The American Veterans Committee.
(b) The Bund Society.
(c) The Communist Party.
(d) The Veterans of Foreign Wars.

11. What does the narrator refer to the bus driver as in Chapter 4, Part 3?
(a) A Goy.
(b) An Irishman.
(c) A Polack.
(d) A Jew.

12. How old was the narrator in 1950?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Seventeen.

13. What college does the Monkey pick up an application for?
(a) Hunter.
(b) SUNY.
(c) NYU.
(d) Wellsely.

14. What color hair does the character Naomi have?
(a) Blond.
(b) Brown.
(c) Red.
(d) Black.

15. What does the narrator say that the Monkey is, in his dad's terms?
(a) A "chippy."
(b) A whore.
(c) A vixen.
(d) A call girl.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bubbles call the narrator before he leaves?

2. Where did the narrator go on a trip with the Monkey?

3. What is the Monkey's name?

4. What does the narrator say that his Rabbi smelled like?

5. What does the narrator say that Bubbles is growing?

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