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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 Chaya mean?
(a) Death.
(b) Life.
(c) Heartache.
(d) Money.

2. What does Amy call Lonoff?
(a) Father.
(b) Mr. Lonoff.
(c) Dad-da.
(d) Teacher.

3. What does Nathan want from Lonoff in Chapter 1?
(a) A place to stay.
(b) Money.
(c) Publishing rights.
(d) Moral sponsorship.

4. What religion are Lonoff and Nathan?
(a) Jewish.
(b) Muslim.
(c) Christian.
(d) Catholic.

5. What type of typewriter does Lonoff have?
(a) None.
(b) Blue.
(c) Portable.
(d) Heavy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many daughters does Lonoff have?

2. What writer does Nathan connect to Lonoff?

3. What do the college boys call the overseer?

4. How long was Lonoff in New York?

5. Who is the city's first Jewish mayor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Zuckerman carrying in his briefcase that he takes to Lonoff's house?

2. What response does Zuckerman get when he mentions Lonoff's name at a publishing party?

3. Why does Zuckerman's father go to Judge Leopold Wapter with the "Higher Education" story?

4. Describe the girl-woman Zuckerman sees at Lonoff's house in Chapter 1.

5. Why does Zuckerman read Henry James' "The Middle Years" twice in one night?

6. How does Zuckerman come to Quahsay?

7. Why does Zuckerman begin writing a letter to his father as he sits in Lonoff's study?

8. How does the trouble between Zuckerman and his father begin, according to Zuckerman in Chapter 2?

9. What earlier connection does Zuckerman have to Judge Wapter?

10. Why does Zuckerman say he stays up in Lonoff's study?

(see the answer keys)

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