2. What is the era in which the author's childhood took place?
(a) World War Two.
(b) The Great Depression.
(c) The 1920's.
(d) World War One.

3. What did the street always smell faintly of?
(a) The garbage left on the curb.
(b) The sewage from the squatter's lot.
(c) The candy from the wholesaler's windows.
(d) Freshly baked bread.

4. What did the older neighbor boys do when they came home from work?
(a) Released pigeons.
(b) Play instruments out on the street.
(c) Call on the author's cousin.
(d) Go out for a drink.

5. What does the author connect New York rush hour with from his childhood?
(a) The hour before supper.
(b) The hour that moved the slowest.
(c) The hour the town slept.
(d) The hour the women worked frantically.

6. What profession was the author's mother?
(a) A Breadmaker.
(b) A Maid.
(c) A Dressmaker.
(d) A Cobbler.

7. What did the author do every time he walked into the civics teachers classroom?
(a) Looked for the girl with the red hair.
(b) Made sure there wasn't "pop quiz" written on the board.
(c) Looked for his name on the blue chart.
(d) Made a bee-line for his seat.

8. 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 ruler that was used to punish the students that hung on the wall.
(c) The clock.
(d) The boy in the second row who would tease him during lunch.

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

10. 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.

11. How did the author describe the Episcopalian church in the neighborhood?
(a) Romantic and ethereal.
(b) Daunting.
(c) Quite plain.
(d) Rundown.

12. Where did the civics teacher stand during the tests he gave?
(a) In the middle of the classroom.
(b) Behind his desk.
(c) Outside the door.
(d) At the back of the classroom.

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

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

15. How did the author feel about the women who sat around his dinner table on Friday nights?
(a) He was infatuated with one of them so he would listen in rapture to them.
(b) He got lost in their conversations but still sat there and listened.
(c) They were too noisy and would escape the house.
(d) They were they joy in the home.