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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 does the author connect New York rush hour with from his childhood?
(a) The hour that moved the slowest.
(b) The hour the town slept.
(c) The hour before supper.
(d) The hour the women worked frantically.

2. What was the Rabbi reluctant to do at Mrs. Solovey's funeral?
(a) Say the necessary prayers over her grave.
(b) Say the necessary prayers inside the synagogue.
(c) Allow a viewing.
(d) Allow her to be burried in the synagogues cemetary.

3. The author's childhood school is still standing in the neighborhood, how does the school feel to the author?
(a) Like a castle.
(b) Like a hospital.
(c) Like home.
(d) Cold and damp.

4. When the author was a young man, who did he think about after he turned the light out at night?
(a) Blumka.
(b) The Polish Broads.
(c) Mrs. Solovey.
(d) Mrs. Rylot.

5. Something frightening happened to the author when we went to get coal one winter day -- what was it?
(a) He was beat up in the cellar.
(b) Bats flew out of the cellar when he opened the door.
(c) He got locked in the cellar.
(d) He thought he heard someone.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the author's "great moment" of the Sabbath?

2. What word does the author use to describe many of the places in Pages 77-109?

3. Where did the author first head when playing follow the leader?

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

5. During his childhood subway train rides to "the city," what told the author that he was on his last leg home?

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