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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Block and Beyond, p. 77 - 109.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose house did the author associate with being the furthest from home?
(a) Mrs. Hooper's.
(b) Mrs. Rosenwasser's.
(c) Mrs. Deutscher's.
(d) Mrs. Klein's.

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

3. What is seltzer to the poor Jews?
(a) Used as a medicine.
(b) Something only the wealthy could acquire.
(c) Worse than their drinking water.
(d) A luxury.

4. What has replaced an entire block of drugstores and candy shops in the neighborhood?
(a) Second-hand furniture shops.
(b) Factories.
(c) Restaurants.
(d) Department stores.

5. What did the three dressmakers and the author's mother speak of that made the author upset?
(a) Politics.
(b) The war.
(c) Home.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the author run?

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

3. Where did the author run away from his father?

4. What time frame did the author always imagine himself walking through New York in?

5. What did Mrs. E do when she abandoned her housework for a half hour every morning?

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