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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Block and Beyond, p. 109 - 131.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What let the author know how he felt after he read his prayer book?
(a) By the song in his head.
(b) By the thoughts he had the rest of the day.
(c) By the discussions he had with his mother.
(d) By the feeling in his chest.

2. What was the greatest mystery about the Soloveys?
(a) Why they moved so much.
(b) Why they were living in Brownsville.
(c) What they fought over.
(d) Where they were originally from.

3. What did the author's mother do out of loneliness every evening?
(a) She would stare out at the street.
(b) She would read from her parent's memoirs.
(c) She would cry silently at the sink while she washed dishes.
(d) She would cry silently at her sewing machine.

4. What did the author's family regularly do after their Friday night discussions?
(a) Play conasta.
(b) Go for a walk around the neighborhood.
(c) Listen to music.
(d) Read the newspaper.

5. What did the three dressmakers and the author's mother speak of that made the author upset?
(a) The war.
(b) Home.
(c) Love.
(d) Politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language was commonly used in the author's neighborhood?

2. What did the author ride from the east side?

3. Where does the author believe only truly free people are from?

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

5. What is the era in which the author's childhood took place?

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