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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 would the author skip pages of his favorite book to read?
(a) The description of the mountainous terrain the characters lived in.
(b) The description of the homestead the characters were building.
(c) The description of the ship the immigrants came across the ocean on.
(d) The description of the characters eating black bread, salt and tomatoes.

2. What was the greatest mystery about the Soloveys?
(a) What they fought over.
(b) Where they were originally from.
(c) Why they were living in Brownsville.
(d) Why they moved so much.

3. When was the author's "great moment" of the Sabbath?
(a) When his father came home.
(b) When the prayers were being said.
(c) When his mother placed the challah on the table.
(d) When it was over.

4. Who could the author hear crying in the streets at night as a child?
(a) The evicted tenants of the neighborhood.
(b) The neighborhood cats.
(c) The woman down the street who's cat ran away.
(d) The man who had just lost his wife.

5. What did the children buy from the Syrian vendors?
(a) Couscous.
(b) Halvah.
(c) Manoushah.
(d) Yaknit al-kama.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the women of Brownsville expect to receive from the drugstore owner?

3. What did the author's family regularly do after their Friday night discussions?

4. What book did Mrs. Solovey take the author back to?

5. What did the Jewish vendors sell roasted potatoes, baked apples and knishes from?

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