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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 instrument did the author play as a child?
(a) The piano.
(b) The trumpet.
(c) The violin.
(d) The clarinet.

2. 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.

3. Where does the author step off the train when he first enters Brownsville?
(a) Rockaway Avenue.
(b) 35th Street.
(c) Main Street.
(d) Broadview Avenue.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What country did the civics teacher come from?

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

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

4. Where did the author run away from his father?

5. Where was city land all around Brownsville? What were those pieces of land used for?

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