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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Judged by those who saw him have the accident.
(b) Shameful for wasting food.
(c) Abandoned by the world.
(d) Happy, as the sandwich had a hair in it.

2. When the author discovers a new development in a familiar part of town, he had a particular feeling toward seeing the development. What was the feeling he had?
(a) Fear.
(b) Anger.
(c) Dismay.
(d) Joy.

3. What association did the New York World hold for the author?
(a) The subway.
(b) The Empire State building.
(c) The Sears Tower.
(d) The Brooklyn Bridge.

4. What did the children buy from the small Italians?
(a) Strawberries.
(b) Sodas.
(c) Pasta.
(d) Shaved Ice.

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

6. Who did the author feel could intercede with God for him?
(a) His mother.
(b) His father.
(c) The Biblical Deborah.
(d) His Rabbi.

7. What feelings does the author experience when he gets off the train?
(a) Fear, loathing, and disgust.
(b) Rage, dread and unexpected tenderness.
(c) Hope, lightheartedness and joy.
(d) No feelings at all.

8. Where was city land all around Brownsville? What were those pieces of land used for?
(a) A plot of land for squatters to camp.
(b) The neighborhood waste site.
(c) The neighborhood garden.
(d) Cutting and storing tombstones.

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

10. In what battle did the brother of the author's cousin go missing?
(a) The Battle of Sarikamish.
(b) The Second Battle of Oituz.
(c) The Battle of Tannenberg.
(d) The Bergman Offensive.

11. What nickname does the author give the second street?
(a) The "show street."
(b) The "short street."
(c) The "slow street."
(d) The "sweet street."

12. What kind of dresses did Mrs. B wear?
(a) Ankle length flowery dresses.
(b) Stiff Nun's habits.
(c) Billowing chiffon dresses.
(d) Plain, old fashioned dressses.

13. What was marriage to the author's parents?
(a) An institution.
(b) A life sentence.
(c) A whirlwind of emotions.
(d) More joyous than words could express.

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

15. How did the author secretly think of the synagogue?
(a) As a mean place.
(b) He felt more comfortable there than he did at school.
(c) He thought it was haunted.
(d) It was a happy place.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author's childhood school is still standing in the neighborhood, how does the school feel to the author?

2. What country did the civics teacher come from?

3. Where was the author's father offered a homestead while he was working for the Union Pacific Railway?

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

5. Where did the author think he lived as a child?

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