Characters
Events
Setting
Miscellaneous
100
Where does Jerry live?
What is Florida. "I knew from the Swede that Jerry lived in Florida.." (p. 60)
100
What did Seymour say in the hospital the day before he died?
What is "Going to get to my fiftieth."
100
What is Nathan Zuckerman attending throughout chapter three?
What is his high school reunion.
100
What is Meredith's impairment?
What is stuttering.
200
How old was Swede going to be the following month of his death?
What is fifty. "His fiftieth was coming up next month." (p.65)
200
Nathan recieves news from Jerry about what happened to Swede recently, what is it? and how did it happen?
What is Swede died two days ago of cancer.
200
Where did the Seymour Levovs once had lived?
What is Old Rimrock.
200
Who does Nathan run into at the reunion, who remembers him by the hayride?
What is Joyce, or Joy Helpern. "You took me on a class hayride. Believe it or not, i used to be Joy helpern." (p.77)
300
Is Swede more of a humorous guy, passionate guy, or a sweetheart?
What is a sweetheart. "He was a very nice, simple stoical guy. Not a humorous guy. Not a passionate guy. Just a sweetheart whose fate it was.." (p.65)
300
What catastrophe was caused by Meredith?
What is an explosion of the post office causing the death of an innocent doctor. "The high school kid who blew up the post office and killed the doctor. The kid who stopped the war in Vietnam by blowing up somebody out mailing a letter at five A.M." (p. 68)
300
Where does Nathan Zuckerman live?
What is New England.
300
Where does Meredith travel to on the weekends which makes Seymour feel worried?
What is New York.
400
Would you say Jerry is more of a bigger guy or smaller guy?
What is Jerry is considered a little of both. "Jerry's body may have been divided between the skinny kid and the large man.." (p.61)
400
One summer day Seymour and his daughter were driving back alone together from the beach..what happened?
What is Meredith asked her father to kiss her passionately as he would kiss her mom, and he did. "he lost his vaunted sense of proportion drew her to him with one arm, and kissed her stammering mouth with the passion that she had been asking him for all month long.." (p.91)
400
What is the reason Meredith states to Swede why she visits Melissa and Bill?
What is she feels her father doesn't care enough about the war. "My responsibility is to you and not the war." "Oh, I know your responsibility is not to the war-that's why i have to go to New York." (p.107)
500
What is Seymour's daughter's name? And her nickname?
What is Meredith Levov, her nickname is the Rimrock Bomber. "Meredith Levov. Seymour's daughter. The 'Rimrock Bomber' was Seymour's daughter." (p.68)
500
As Meredith grew up what was the relationship like between her and her mom?
What is it went downhill as they fought and argued all the time.
500
Why is the setting significant throughout this chapter?
What is it goes back and forth between the past and the present. *you remember things this way
500
What religions do Seymour and his wife believe in?
What is Seymour is Jewish and Miss Dwyer is Catholic. "she's post-Catholic, he's post-Jewish.." (p. 73)
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