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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 did the author and his mother admire as they walked past Belmont Avenue?
(a) The architecture of the new buildings going in.
(b) The meats hanging in the delicatessen window.
(c) The jars of colored water in the drugstore.
(d) The fruits and vegetables.

2. When the author read books, he yearned for something. What did he yearn for?
(a) Someone he could bully around.
(b) Someone to be his true friend.
(c) Someone to run with at night.
(d) Someone to walk to school with.

3. Something frightening happened to the author when we went to get coal one winter day -- what was it?
(a) He got locked in the cellar.
(b) Bats flew out of the cellar when he opened the door.
(c) He was beat up in the cellar.
(d) He thought he heard someone.

4. Where did the author run away from his father?
(a) The Abraham and Straus Store.
(b) Prospect Park.
(c) Grand Army Plaza.
(d) Atlantic Avenue.

5. What did the boy do to win over the neighbor girl's mother?
(a) Offer to become a Jew.
(b) Fix her leaky pipes.
(c) Pay her bills.
(d) Cook her dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the author run?

2. What kind of coat did Mr. Solovey wear?

3. What time of day is the mind's "grazing time?"

4. Who did the author's father meet?

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

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