2. What did the three dressmakers and the author's mother speak of that made the author upset?
(a) Love.
(b) Politics.
(c) The war.
(d) Home.

3. What were the author's lasting feelings about his school years?
(a) A feeling of inadequacy.
(b) A hopeful feeling of accomplishment.
(c) A lifelong sense of being judged.
(d) A feeling of success.

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

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

6. 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) They were too noisy and would escape the house.
(c) They were they joy in the home.
(d) He got lost in their conversations but still sat there and listened.

7. At what age are Jewish boys "confirmed?"
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) Twelve.

8. Who could the author hear crying in the streets at night as a child?
(a) The woman down the street who's cat ran away.
(b) The evicted tenants of the neighborhood.
(c) The man who had just lost his wife.
(d) The neighborhood cats.

9. What was all work measured by in the author's childhood home?
(a) The length of a job.
(b) The approval of peers.
(c) The perfect skill with which it was completed.
(d) The look on mother's face when she saw the job.

10. What instrument did the author play as a child?
(a) The piano.
(b) The violin.
(c) The trumpet.
(d) The clarinet.

11. What time of day is the mind's "grazing time?"
(a) Twilight.
(b) Dinner time.
(c) The time between dinner and bedtime in which only relaxing was done.
(d) Bedtime.

12. What emotion does the author speak of in great length in Section 3?
(a) Joy.
(b) Love.
(c) Fear.
(d) Pain.

13. What did Mrs. E do when she abandoned her housework for a half hour every morning?
(a) She listened to her "shows" on the radio.
(b) She gossiped with the neighborhood ladies.
(c) She sat in the vegetarian restaurant.
(d) She weeded her small flower garden.

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

15. The author's mother was a hard worker but there was something she couldn't do. What was that one thing?
(a) Read English.
(b) Read at all.
(c) Do basic math.
(d) Work the victrola.