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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the author rejoice to see in his kitchen?
(a) A sink full of fresh produce.
(b) His dad covered in paint from his first job in some time.
(c) More customers than his mother had ever had before.
(d) His cousin and her friends sitting at the table.

2. Who was the neighbor girl dating that her mother was ashamed of?
(a) A Negro boy.
(b) An Irish boy.
(c) A French boy.
(d) An Italian boy.

3. What political party was said to be unfriendly?
(a) Socialist.
(b) Communist.
(c) Democrat.
(d) Republican.

4. What did the fat brother that owned the barber shop put through the delicatessen window?
(a) A customer.
(b) The skinny brother.
(c) A motorcycle.
(d) A barrel.

5. Why did the author play the violin for the barber?
(a) So he could listen to the old men talk politics.
(b) So he could learn how to become a barber.
(c) So he could get free haircuts.
(d) So he could read the racy news magazines.

6. What had the author's final paper been about?
(a) Mrs. Solovey's suicide.
(b) His Socialist party friends.
(c) A violin.
(d) His relationship with his mother.

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

8. What was the keyword when referred to Mendy?
(a) Sellout.
(b) Future.
(c) Traitor.
(d) Hero.

9. What name does the author keep calling God?
(a) Yeshua.
(b) Jehovah.
(c) El Elyon.
(d) Elohim.

10. What kind of look did New York City have during the summer nights?
(a) A mysterious look.
(b) A coarse look.
(c) An unstitched look.
(d) An ethereal look.

11. What street was the author's house on?
(a) Rockaway Ave.
(b) Chester Street.
(c) Broadview Ave.
(d) Pitkin Street.

12. What word does the author use to describe many of the places in Pages 77-109?
(a) Beyond.
(b) Alien.
(c) Lonely.
(d) Home.

13. What emotion did the author feel when he was working during his sixteenth summer?
(a) Happy.
(b) Indifference.
(c) Dread.
(d) Fear.

14. During the second year of The Great Depression, how long had it been since the author's father had work?
(a) Nine months.
(b) Three years.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) Nine weeks.

15. What book was the author always reading on his job?
(a) David Copperfield.
(b) His prayer book.
(c) Anna Karenina.
(d) Moby Dick.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language was commonly used in the author's neighborhood?

2. What book did Mrs. Solovey take the author back to?

3. When the author was a young man, who did he think about after he turned the light out at night?

4. What has replaced an entire block of drugstores and candy shops in the neighborhood?

5. What did the author ride from the east side?

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