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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 was the author afraid of?
(a) The "chicken lady."
(b) The barber.
(c) The principal.
(d) The cellar.

2. What did the author's mother do to remember her parent's deaths?
(a) She went dancing, her parents favorite thing to do together.
(b) She went to the cemetary where they were buried and laid flowers at their graves.
(c) She sat around and told stories of her parents to her friends.
(d) She lit the mourning candle twice a year.

3. In front of what building did the author's father meet every Saturday morning?
(a) The delicatessen.
(b) The coffee shop.
(c) The hardware store.
(d) The Municipal Bank.

4. How did the author's parents feel of his generation?
(a) They were too frivolous.
(b) They were careless.
(c) They were free.
(d) They were foolish.

5. How did the author feel about the women who sat around his dinner table on Friday nights?
(a) He got lost in their conversations but still sat there and listened.
(b) They were they joy in the home.
(c) They were too noisy and would escape the house.
(d) He was infatuated with one of them so he would listen in rapture to them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the author step off the train when he first enters Brownsville?

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

3. When the author played handball, was it for fun?

4. Was the author good at handball?

5. What was the author listening to when he last saw his childhood kitchen?

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