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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Block and Beyond, p. 77 - 109.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the author played handball, was it for fun?
(a) When he practiced, it was for fun. When he played, it was for money.
(b) He felt it was fun because he felt like he could escape when he played.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

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

3. What kind of books did the author go to his cousin's room to read?
(a) Books on how to date women.
(b) Yiddish books.
(c) Books on government.
(d) English books.

4. Who did the author feel could intercede with God for him?
(a) His mother.
(b) His father.
(c) His Rabbi.
(d) The Biblical Deborah.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the women of Brownsville force their children to do?

2. When was the author's "great moment" of the Sabbath?

3. How did the author feel about his Hebrew classes?

4. How did the author feel about the women who sat around his dinner table on Friday nights?

5. Who could the author hear crying in the streets at night as a child?

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