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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the author feel the only time his favorite food could be eaten in "good conscience"?
(a) Saturday night.
(b) Friday night.
(c) After he finished playing stickball.
(d) On his way home from school.

2. What belief about Jews did the author grow up with?
(a) That they were destined to be leaders of the country.
(b) That they were destined to be bankers.
(c) That they were destined to be propertyless workers.
(d) That they were destined to marry only out of duty.

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

4. 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) Abandoned by the world.
(c) Shameful for wasting food.
(d) Happy, as the sandwich had a hair in it.

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

6. 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) Anger.
(b) Joy.
(c) Dismay.
(d) Fear.

7. In Brownsville, what room of the house was the largest and most important?
(a) The living room.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) The entry hall.
(d) The bathroom.

8. What nickname did the author's father give him?
(a) Heshie.
(b) Lazer.
(c) Kaddish.
(d) Yankel.

9. When the narrative begins, how many years has it been since the author left to live in "the city?"
(a) Ten Years.
(b) Three Years.
(c) Thirteen Years.
(d) Five Years.

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

11. What trait did the author's mother posses that she was most ashamed of?
(a) She couldn't speak English.
(b) She had a limp on her right side.
(c) She was superstitious.
(d) She had a large scar on her hand.

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

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

14. What would the author skip pages of his favorite book to read?
(a) The description of the homestead the characters were building.
(b) The description of the characters eating black bread, salt and tomatoes.
(c) The description of the mountainous terrain the characters lived in.
(d) The description of the ship the immigrants came across the ocean on.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What association did the New York World hold for the author?

2. When was the author's "great moment" of the Sabbath?

3. The author didn't associate his school years with learning, what did he associate them with?

4. Who was Mrs. B said to have physical relations with?

5. What kind of books did the author go to his cousin's room to read?

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