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

2. Where is the narrator's uncle's store?
(a) The Bronx.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) Newark.
(d) Jersey City.

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

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

5. What is the narrator's mother doing when he sees her menstrual blood?
(a) Serving dinner.
(b) Koshering meat.
(c) Sewing.
(d) Baking cookies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator keep hidden in the basement for the purpose of pleasuring himself?

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

3. What is the title of Chapter 4?

4. Who does the narrator's father hold up as someone to emulate in life?

5. Who is the shikse who comes to dinner with the narrator's father?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What resentments does the narrator recall following the family's move from Jersey City?

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

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

5. How does the narrator feel about the laws of Judaism?

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

7. What does the narrator suspect about the shikse who came to his family's house? Why?

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

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

10. What do Alex and his parents argue about after their dinner in Chapter 4?

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