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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 thought he heard someone.
(c) Bats flew out of the cellar when he opened the door.
(d) He was beat up in the cellar.

2. How did Mrs. Solovey commit suicide?
(a) She sealed the doors and windows and let the gas stove run.
(b) She jumped from the fire escape.
(c) She jumped in front of the El train at Rockaway Station.
(d) She jumped of the Brooklyn Bridge and drowned in the East River.

3. Which of the stations is the author's favorite?
(a) Rockaway Station.
(b) Bedford Park Station.
(c) The El.
(d) Union Station.

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

5. 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 mother.
(c) A painting of his grandparents.
(d) A painting of a nude woman.

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

7. What could you see someone doing into the late hours of dusk in Brownsville?
(a) Someone settling down in an empty alleyway for the night.
(b) Someone stealing coal from the cellars.
(c) Boys playing handball.
(d) Someone sifting through garbage.

8. What did the author and his mother admire as they walked past Belmont Avenue?
(a) The architecture of the new buildings going in.
(b) The jars of colored water in the drugstore.
(c) The meats hanging in the delicatessen window.
(d) The fruits and vegetables.

9. Where did the author stop his nightly runs around the block during summertime?
(a) The candy store.
(b) The drugstore.
(c) The Soloveys.
(d) The Rylots.

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

11. The author needed something urgent at the end of the chapter, The Block and Beyond, Pages 109-131. What did he need?
(a) To use the facilities.
(b) To say his final goodbyes.
(c) To see his father.
(d) To see his mother.

12. 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.

13. What let the author know how he felt after he read his prayer book?
(a) By the song in his head.
(b) By the feeling in his chest.
(c) By the thoughts he had the rest of the day.
(d) By the discussions he had with his mother.

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

15. Finish this sentence. " The Socialist Party is _______."
(a) The Right Hand of the Devil.
(b) The Third Party of Capitolism.
(c) The Second Party of Communism.
(d) The Lord's Chosen Way.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the first restaurant the author ever sat in?

3. Who's name was on the sign the boys pasted to the outside wall of a house on Chester Street?

4. The author changed where he walked after supper. Where did he walk to?

5. What did the fat brother that owned the barber shop put through the delicatessen window?

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