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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 did the author spend his school days staring at in fear and anxiety?
(a) The clock.
(b) A notebook that sat on the teachers desk.
(c) The ruler that was used to punish the students that hung on the wall.
(d) The boy in the second row who would tease him during lunch.

2. Who inspired the teaching style and curriculum of the author's civics teacher?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) Herbert Hoover.
(c) Calvin Coolidge.
(d) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

3. Who is it the author always sees first when he enters Brownsville?
(a) The Negroes.
(b) The subway guard.
(c) The children.
(d) The old women.

4. During his childhood subway train rides to "the city," what told the author that he was on his last leg home?
(a) The east and west side express lane junctions.
(b) The Borough Hall Station.
(c) The Brooklyn-Clark Station.
(d) The East River.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument did the author play as a child?

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

3. What is the era in which the author's childhood took place?

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

5. What was the author's favorite school experience?

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