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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Block and Beyond, p. 109 - 131.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the author feel it meant to be a Jew?
(a) They were superior to the other religions.
(b) They were free in their part of town.
(c) Their very existance was questioned.
(d) They were the most choice of people.

2. Why did the author keep going back to the barber shop?
(a) To read the newspapers from New York.
(b) To take lessons from the barber.
(c) To hear the latest political discussions.
(d) To look at two pictures from the first world war.

3. Who did the author say it was good to be back among?
(a) The women who shouted from the market.
(b) The children playing handball on the street.
(c) His family.
(d) The children playing stickball on on the block.

4. Where was the author's father offered a homestead while he was working for the Union Pacific Railway?
(a) Colorado.
(b) St. Louis.
(c) Omaha.
(d) Dallas.

5. Did the author feel he could openly discuss his feelings about God?
(a) Yes.
(b) No.
(c) He only felt he could express them to his parents.
(d) He felt he could only discuss them with his friends from school.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the neighbor girl dating that her mother was ashamed of?

2. What did the fat brother that owned the barber shop put through the delicatessen window?

3. What word does the author use to describe many of the places in Pages 77-109?

4. Who's name was on the sign the boys pasted to the outside wall of a house on Chester Street?

5. What part of the neighborhood tests the author?

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