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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. What drove the author's mother to work so hard?
(a) They needed the money.
(b) Duty to her husband.
(c) She felt the women in the neighborhood needed her.
(d) Loneliness.

2. Where did the author stop his nightly runs around the block during summertime?
(a) The drugstore.
(b) The candy store.
(c) The Soloveys.
(d) The Rylots.

3. What did the older neighbor boys do when they came home from work?
(a) Go out for a drink.
(b) Released pigeons.
(c) Play instruments out on the street.
(d) Call on the author's cousin.

4. What was marriage to the author's parents?
(a) A life sentence.
(b) A whirlwind of emotions.
(c) More joyous than words could express.
(d) An institution.

5. What did the author's family regularly do after their Friday night discussions?
(a) Go for a walk around the neighborhood.
(b) Read the newspaper.
(c) Listen to music.
(d) Play conasta.

Short Answer Questions

1. What building does the author miss the most, though?

2. How did the author secretly think of the synagogue?

3. What did the three dressmakers and the author's mother speak of that made the author upset?

4. Where was the author's father offered a homestead while he was working for the Union Pacific Railway?

5. At what age are Jewish boys "confirmed?"

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