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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. How does the author describe David's house?
(a) Comfortable.
(b) Naked.
(c) Opulent.
(d) Poor.

2. Where was the author's father offered a homestead while he was working for the Union Pacific Railway?
(a) Colorado.
(b) Dallas.
(c) Omaha.
(d) St. Louis.

3. What was the Rabbi reluctant to do at Mrs. Solovey's funeral?
(a) Allow a viewing.
(b) Say the necessary prayers over her grave.
(c) Allow her to be burried in the synagogues cemetary.
(d) Say the necessary prayers inside the synagogue.

4. What can the author see in every ground floor kitchen window?
(a) Jars of beans and fresh herbs.
(b) Lemonade and jam.
(c) Containers of milk and fresh poppy seed rolls.
(d) Pies cooling for dessert.

5. What part of the neighborhood tests the author?
(a) The school yard.
(b) The back wall of the drugstore.
(c) The alley where all the boys played handball.
(d) The drugstore where he dropped the sandwich.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author rejoice to see in his kitchen?

2. What was the first restaurant the author ever sat in?

3. When the author was a young man, who did he think about after he turned the light out at night?

4. What is the name of the second road the author mentions?

5. How did the author feel about summertime?

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