3. Why did the author run?
(a) To be the first to play follow the leader.
(b) To escape the junkyard dogs.
(c) To escape his block.
(d) To train for handball.

4. What did the women of Brownsville expect to receive from the drugstore owner?
(a) Credit.
(b) Beauty tips.
(c) Sweets.
(d) Free samples.

5. What time frame did the author always imagine himself walking through New York in?
(a) The 1880's.
(b) The 1850's.
(c) The 1890's.
(d) The 1900's.

6. Who did the shacks on Livonia Avenue start filling up with during the depression?
(a) Communists.
(b) Negroes.
(c) Irish immigrants.
(d) Jobless union workers.

7. Why don't the children sleep inside?
(a) Their parents rent out their rooms.
(b) The bedrooms are closed off to save energy.
(c) It was too hot.
(d) The cockroaches made it impossible to sleep in their bedrooms.

8. What did the author want more than anything?
(a) To be a good handball player.
(b) To be a good son.
(c) To be a "good Jew."
(d) To leave Brownsville.

9. What did the author experience when reading the words of the little blue book?
(a) He had an moment of enlightenment.
(b) His felt his soul die. He felt too much guilt.
(c) The turn of every page was a labored effort.
(d) Words so descriptive he could sense what was happening in the book.

10. Who were the author's friends?
(a) The boys from his Hebrew classes.
(b) The characters from his books.
(c) The boys who lived on Pitkin Street.
(d) The characters in the Bible.

11. On Fifth Avenue, the author found something he was surprised by. What was it?
(a) A painting of his grandparents.
(b) A painting of a nude woman.
(c) A painting of his home country.
(d) A painting of his mother.

12. Something frightening happened to the author when we went to get coal one winter day -- what was it?
(a) He got locked in the cellar.
(b) He was beat up in the cellar.
(c) He thought he heard someone.
(d) Bats flew out of the cellar when he opened the door.

13. Was the author good at handball?
(a) Yes.
(b) The book doesn't clarify.
(c) No.
(d) He was the best in the neighborhood.

14. When the author read books, he yearned for something. What did he yearn for?
(a) Someone he could bully around.
(b) Someone to run with at night.
(c) Someone to walk to school with.
(d) Someone to be his true friend.

15. What made Mrs. Solovey leave the author's house?
(a) He told her about his mother's depression.
(b) He asked her why she came to Brownsville.
(c) He asked her if he could marry one of her daughters.
(d) He told her about his daydreams.