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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. Why did the author play the violin for the barber?
(a) So he could listen to the old men talk politics.
(b) So he could learn how to become a barber.
(c) So he could read the racy news magazines.
(d) So he could get free haircuts.

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

3. What physical trait was the author most embarrassed by during his early school years?
(a) His religion.
(b) His stammer.
(c) His limp.
(d) His birthmark.

4. What language was commonly used in the author's neighborhood?
(a) Yiddish.
(b) Polish.
(c) Hebrew.
(d) Russian.

5. What drove the author's mother to work so hard?
(a) Duty to her husband.
(b) Loneliness.
(c) They needed the money.
(d) She felt the women in the neighborhood needed her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Was the author good at handball?

2. Who were the author's friends?

3. What did the children buy from the small Italians?

4. What still lines Belmont Avenue that was there during the author's childhood?

5. The author didn't associate his school years with learning, what did he associate them with?

(see the answer key)

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