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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the author was a young man, who did he think about after he turned the light out at night?
(a) Mrs. Rylot.
(b) Mrs. Solovey.
(c) Blumka.
(d) The Polish Broads.

2. What was the author's first idea of summer?
(a) This was his summer to find a girlfriend.
(b) The summer could speed up.
(c) Life could slow down.
(d) This was the summer he was going to master follow the leader.

3. What did the boy do to win over the neighbor girl's mother?
(a) Pay her bills.
(b) Cook her dinner.
(c) Offer to become a Jew.
(d) Fix her leaky pipes.

4. What did Mr. Solovey wear that was unusual to the author?
(a) Lederhosen.
(b) A wedding band.
(c) Patent leather shoes.
(d) A black alpaca trench coat, even in the summer.

5. What language does the author share with Mrs. Solovey?
(a) Polish.
(b) Hebrew.
(c) French.
(d) Russian.

6. The author changed where he walked after supper. Where did he walk to?
(a) His girlfriend's house.
(b) The reservoir.
(c) The new library.
(d) The new candy shop down the street.

7. What did Mrs. Solovey's coffin look like?
(a) It was black and plain.
(b) It was a plain wooden box.
(c) It was ornately carved.
(d) It was wrapped in a Star of David flag.

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

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

10. Whose house did the author associate with being the furthest from home?
(a) Mrs. Klein's.
(b) Mrs. Rosenwasser's.
(c) Mrs. Hooper's.
(d) Mrs. Deutscher's.

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

12. Where was the turn off to "all things good" the author's sixteenth summer?
(a) Chester Street.
(b) Eastern Parkway.
(c) Pitkin Avenue.
(d) The turnoff to the Italian neighborhood.

13. What happened to Mr. Solovey's business?
(a) It went bankrupt.
(b) It was bought by a chain.
(c) It burned down.
(d) It was robbed.

14. What other author did the author feel he could trust?
(a) William Blake.
(b) Samuel Hopkins Adams.
(c) Charles Dickens.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

15. Mr. and Mrs. Solovey had children, what were their children?
(a) Two sons.
(b) A son and two daughters.
(c) Two daughters.
(d) Three daughters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Something frightening happened to the author when we went to get coal one winter day -- what was it?

2. What did the author rejoice to see in his kitchen?

3. What time frame did the author always imagine himself walking through New York in?

4. Where did the author stop his nightly runs around the block during summertime?

5. During the summer, children sleep somewhere other than their beds in Brownsville. Where do they sleep?

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