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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 does the author connect New York rush hour with from his childhood?
(a) The hour that moved the slowest.
(b) The hour before supper.
(c) The hour the women worked frantically.
(d) The hour the town slept.

2. 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) Anger.
(b) Fear.
(c) Joy.
(d) Dismay.

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

4. What did the women of Brownsville force their children to do?
(a) Stay outside until dinner was ready.
(b) Eat.
(c) Shop for dinner.
(d) Beat rugs on the stoop.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author always have in his hands when he was waiting fort the girl by the junkyard?

2. What was all work measured by in the author's childhood home?

3. What did the team receive if they won the competition between the "Army Navy" tests the civics teacher gave?

4. What feelings does the author experience when he gets off the train?

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

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