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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. What political way of thinking did the author's parents practice?
(a) Republican.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Marxism.

2. Where does the author step off the train when he first enters Brownsville?
(a) 35th Street.
(b) Rockaway Avenue.
(c) Main Street.
(d) Broadview Avenue.

3. The author stopped at the neighborhood drugstore to have lunch one day. While eating his sandwich, some of it fell into a pile of dust. How did this make the author feel?
(a) Abandoned by the world.
(b) Judged by those who saw him have the accident.
(c) Happy, as the sandwich had a hair in it.
(d) Shameful for wasting food.

4. How did the author try to show his parents he loved them?
(a) He played his violin for them.
(b) He succeeded in school.
(c) He hugged them.
(d) He tried to get an after school job.

5. Why did the author play the violin for the barber?
(a) So he could learn how to become a barber.
(b) So he could get free haircuts.
(c) So he could read the racy news magazines.
(d) So he could listen to the old men talk politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was marriage to the author's parents?

2. How did the author feel about being confirmed?

3. What street was the author's house on?

4. How did the author feel it meant to be a Jew?

5. What is seltzer to the poor Jews?

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