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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Kitchen, p. 51 - 73.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What nickname did the author's father give him?
(a) Kaddish.
(b) Lazer.
(c) Heshie.
(d) Yankel.

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

3. What would the author skip pages of his favorite book to read?
(a) The description of the homestead the characters were building.
(b) The description of the characters eating black bread, salt and tomatoes.
(c) The description of the ship the immigrants came across the ocean on.
(d) The description of the mountainous terrain the characters lived in.

4. Who was Mrs. B said to have physical relations with?
(a) The English teacher.
(b) The principal.
(c) The physical education teacher.
(d) The math teacher.

5. What political way of thinking did the author's parents practice?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Marxism.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Republican.

Short Answer Questions

1. What description does the author give Belmont Avenue?

2. What did the author spend his school days staring at in fear and anxiety?

3. When the narrative begins, how many years has it been since the author left to live in "the city?"

4. What did the three dressmakers and the author's mother speak of that made the author upset?

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

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