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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Summer: The Way to Highland Park, p. 135 - 176.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What description does the author give Belmont Avenue?
(a) The "loneliest street in Brownsville."
(b) The "merriest street in Brownsville."
(c) The "loudest street in Brownsville."
(d) The "brightest street in Brownsville."

2. Why don't the children sleep inside?
(a) The cockroaches made it impossible to sleep in their bedrooms.
(b) The bedrooms are closed off to save energy.
(c) It was too hot.
(d) Their parents rent out their rooms.

3. What happened to Mr. Solovey's business?
(a) It was robbed.
(b) It was bought by a chain.
(c) It burned down.
(d) It went bankrupt.

4. What did the Jews of Brownsville think of someone "going their own way" or not following tradition?
(a) It was unthinkable.
(b) It was courageous.
(c) It was radical.
(d) It wasn't done.

5. Where was the turn off to "all things good" the author's sixteenth summer?
(a) Pitkin Avenue.
(b) The turnoff to the Italian neighborhood.
(c) Eastern Parkway.
(d) Chester Street.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Jewish vendors sell roasted potatoes, baked apples and knishes from?

2. How did the author feel about summertime?

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

4. The author stopped at the neighborhood drugstore to have lunch one day. While eating his sandwich, some of it fell into a pile of dust. How did this make the author feel?

5. Mr. and Mrs. Solovey had children, what were their children?

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