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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 say that Bubbles is growing?
(a) Arm hair.
(b) A moustache.
(c) A plant.
(d) Breasts.

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

3. How old is the narrator in 1946?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Fourteen.
(d) Thirty.

4. Who had the Monkey previously married?
(a) A Jewish architect.
(b) A French chef.
(c) An Italian painter.
(d) A French industrialist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Smolka go on to be a professor as an adult?

2. How much money did the narrator pay to the prostitute in Italy?

3. What is the name of the girl whom the protagonist has his first sexual experience?

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

5. What is one of the books the narrator buys for the Monkey?

Short Essay Questions

1. When do the narrator's doubts about the Monkey reach a climax?

2. What does Alex suggest that the Monkey says are his worst sins?

3. What is the title of Chapter 5? What does this refer to?

4. What does the narrator say about the Monkey's life story in Chapter 4?

5. Who does Alex describe as the first of the shikses he had a relationship with? What attracted him to her?

6. What does Alex say he sometimes fantasizes about in Chapter 6?

7. How did Alex feel about having "a real" relationship with the Monkey?

8. How does Alex describe the "Sunday morning ritual" in his neighborhood?

9. What, according to the narrator, are the worst sins he has committed in Chapter 4?

10. Who is Bubbles? What was she to Alex?

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