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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What was the author afraid of?
(a) The cellar.
(b) The barber.
(c) The "chicken lady."
(d) The principal.

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

8. What did the author hide under his coat on the way home Passover week?
(a) Packaged matzah.
(b) A jar of pickles.
(c) A bottle of wine.
(d) Packaged white bread.

9. What kind of coat did Mr. Solovey wear?
(a) Trench.
(b) Cashmere.
(c) Alpaca.
(d) Wool.

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

11. Who was the author's favorite of his Socialist party friends?
(a) David.
(b) Isrolik.
(c) Hunchback.
(d) Ilyich.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose house did the author associate with being the furthest from home?

2. What was the Rabbi reluctant to do at Mrs. Solovey's funeral?

3. What was the name the author made up for Mrs. Solovey?

4. What countries had the Solovey's lived in?

5. What language does the author share with Mrs. Solovey?

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