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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does the narrator say his desires are in Chapter 4?
(a) Excuses.
(b) Perverse.
(c) Endless.
(d) Evasions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What beach does the narrator's family stay at during the summers?

2. What kind of grades does the young narrator make?

3. Where does the narrator's mother accuse him of going to eat in Chapter 2?

4. What is the narrator's name?

5. What is not kosher after eating meat?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Alex remark about his father's bowel movements in Chapter 4?

2. Where does the narrator's father work? What line of business is he in? Where is his "route?"

3. Where does Alex's family move during his childhood? When does this happen?

4. What is Chapter 2 primarily about?

5. What does the narrator's mother do to him when he is "bad?" How does he react?

6. What story does Alex tell about his mother and lobster?

7. What does the narrator speak of regarding his humiliations with his mother as a child in Chapter 3?

8. How does the narrator describe his sister in their early years?

9. What became of the narrator's cousin? Why?

10. Who is the shikse who came to the young Alex's family's home? Why?

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