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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. Who inspired the teaching style and curriculum of the author's civics teacher?
(a) Calvin Coolidge.
(b) Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) Herbert Hoover.
(d) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

2. What did the author spend his school days staring at in fear and anxiety?
(a) A notebook that sat on the teachers desk.
(b) The clock.
(c) The ruler that was used to punish the students that hung on the wall.
(d) The boy in the second row who would tease him during lunch.

3. What kind of look did New York City have during the summer nights?
(a) An unstitched look.
(b) A coarse look.
(c) An ethereal look.
(d) A mysterious look.

4. What kind of coat did Mr. Solovey wear?
(a) Cashmere.
(b) Alpaca.
(c) Wool.
(d) Trench.

5. Whose house did the author associate with being the furthest from home?
(a) Mrs. Rosenwasser's.
(b) Mrs. Klein's.
(c) Mrs. Deutscher's.
(d) Mrs. Hooper's.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the author feel about the women who sat around his dinner table on Friday nights?

2. Where was city land all around Brownsville? What were those pieces of land used for?

3. Who is it the author always sees first when he enters Brownsville?

4. What emotion did the author feel when he was working during his sixteenth summer?

5. The author preferred the movie house over the synagogue, why did he favor the movie house?

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