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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. 30 - 47.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is seltzer to the poor Jews?
(a) Something only the wealthy could acquire.
(b) A luxury.
(c) Used as a medicine.
(d) Worse than their drinking water.

2. How did the author secretly think of the synagogue?
(a) He thought it was haunted.
(b) It was a happy place.
(c) He felt more comfortable there than he did at school.
(d) As a mean place.

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

4. In front of what building did the author's father meet every Saturday morning?
(a) The coffee shop.
(b) The Municipal Bank.
(c) The hardware store.
(d) The delicatessen.

5. Who did the author's father meet?
(a) Fellow freelance writers.
(b) Fellow freelance artists.
(c) Fellow freelance painters.
(d) Fellow freelance musicians.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What description does the author give Belmont Avenue?

3. Did the author feel he could openly discuss his feelings about God?

4. Where did the civics teacher stand during the tests he gave?

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

(see the answer key)

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