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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What feelings does the author experience when he gets off the train?
(a) Hope, lightheartedness and joy.
(b) Fear, loathing, and disgust.
(c) No feelings at all.
(d) Rage, dread and unexpected tenderness.

2. What nickname did the author's father give him?
(a) Yankel.
(b) Lazer.
(c) Heshie.
(d) Kaddish.

3. How did the author secretly think of the synagogue?
(a) He thought it was haunted.
(b) It was a happy place.
(c) He felt more comfortable there than he did at school.
(d) As a mean place.

4. What did the author always have in his hands when he was waiting fort the girl by the junkyard?
(a) His lucky penny.
(b) His prayer book.
(c) His little red books.
(d) His baseball mitt.

5. When the author discovers a new development in a familiar part of town, he had a particular feeling toward seeing the development. What was the feeling he had?
(a) Dismay.
(b) Joy.
(c) Anger.
(d) Fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is seltzer to the poor Jews?

2. During his childhood subway train rides to "the city," what told the author that he was on his last leg home?

3. In front of what building did the author's father meet every Saturday morning?

4. What was the author's favorite school experience?

5. What does the author connect New York rush hour with from his childhood?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe the Episcopalian church in his childhood neighborhood?

2. During the day the author's home was different than others. How was it different?

3. What kind of geographies does the author describe in the last part of 'From the Subway to the Synagogue'? What do describing these geographies lead to?

4. In the middle of the first section, 'From the Subway to the Synagogue', what is the first street the author mentions and how does he describe it?

5. How did the author feel about his religion teachers and why?

6. In what ways did the kitchen hold the author's mother's character?

7. How does the author feel about his childhood school?

8. Twice a year, the author's mother would mourn her parent's deaths. What other significance did his mother's mourning hold for the author?

9. Who does the demolished part of the author's childhood neighborhood remind the author of and why was she so important to him?

10. What time of day was the loneliest for the author's mother and why? What brought her out of her loneliness?

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