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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, From the Subway to the Synagogue, p. 30 - 47.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the author's lasting feelings about his school years?
(a) A hopeful feeling of accomplishment.
(b) A feeling of success.
(c) A feeling of inadequacy.
(d) A lifelong sense of being judged.

2. What was the author's favorite school experience?
(a) His weekly visits with the speech pathologist.
(b) Walking past the girls' bathroom.
(c) Saying the pledge of allegiance.
(d) Visiting the assembly hall.

3. How did the author describe the Episcopalian church in the neighborhood?
(a) Rundown.
(b) Daunting.
(c) Romantic and ethereal.
(d) Quite plain.

4. What did the Jewish vendors sell roasted potatoes, baked apples and knishes from?
(a) A tin stove.
(b) A shiny metal cart.
(c) A black oil barrel.
(d) A wood cart.

5. What kind of dresses did Mrs. B wear?
(a) Ankle length flowery dresses.
(b) Plain, old fashioned dressses.
(c) Stiff Nun's habits.
(d) Billowing chiffon dresses.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author's childhood school is still standing in the neighborhood, how does the school feel to the author?

2. When the author discovers a new development in a familiar part of town, he had a particular feeling toward seeing the development. What was the feeling he had?

3. What did the author always have in his hands when he was waiting fort the girl by the junkyard?

4. How did the author feel about being confirmed?

5. What did the women of Brownsville force their children to do?

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