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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. 1 - 30..

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Judged by those who saw him have the accident.
(b) Happy, as the sandwich had a hair in it.
(c) Shameful for wasting food.
(d) Abandoned by the world.

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

4. 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?
(a) Joy.
(b) Anger.
(c) Dismay.
(d) Fear.

5. What did the author always have in his hands when he was waiting fort the girl by the junkyard?
(a) His lucky penny.
(b) His prayer book.
(c) His baseball mitt.
(d) His little red books.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country did the civics teacher come from?

2. What can the author see in every ground floor kitchen window?

3. Where does the author step off the train when he first enters Brownsville?

4. What physical trait was the author most embarrassed by during his early school years?

5. Who inspired the teaching style and curriculum of the author's civics teacher?

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