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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 book did Mrs. Solovey take the author back to?
(a) Jane Eyre.
(b) Dr. Zhivago.
(c) Anna Karenina.
(d) Pride and Prejudice.

2. What did the children buy from the small Italians?
(a) Shaved Ice.
(b) Sodas.
(c) Pasta.
(d) Strawberries.

3. What part of the neighborhood tests the author?
(a) The school yard.
(b) The alley where all the boys played handball.
(c) The back wall of the drugstore.
(d) The drugstore where he dropped the sandwich.

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

5. Why did the author run?
(a) To escape the junkyard dogs.
(b) To escape his block.
(c) To be the first to play follow the leader.
(d) To train for handball.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author's mother do out of loneliness every evening?

2. How did the author feel about being confirmed?

3. Who's name was on the sign the boys pasted to the outside wall of a house on Chester Street?

4. What let the author know how he felt after he read his prayer book?

5. Where did the author think he lived as a child?

(see the answer key)

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