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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 did the big Italians sell and during what time?
(a) Baked apples during the fall.
(b) Roasted nuts during the winter.
(c) Yogurt during the spring.
(d) Watermelons during the summer.

2. What did the author do every time he walked into the civics teachers classroom?
(a) Made a bee-line for his seat.
(b) Looked for his name on the blue chart.
(c) Looked for the girl with the red hair.
(d) Made sure there wasn't "pop quiz" written on the board.

3. What belief about Jews did the author grow up with?
(a) That they were destined to be bankers.
(b) That they were destined to be leaders of the country.
(c) That they were destined to be propertyless workers.
(d) That they were destined to marry only out of duty.

4. What is the name and nickname of the third street the author mentions in Part 1, pages 30-47?
(a) Roosevelt Avenue, the wealthy street.
(b) Hampton Street, the playground.
(c) Broadview Avenue, the lonely street.
(d) Chester Street, the way home.

5. What did the author spend his school days staring at in fear and anxiety?
(a) The clock.
(b) The boy in the second row who would tease him during lunch.
(c) The ruler that was used to punish the students that hung on the wall.
(d) A notebook that sat on the teachers desk.

Short Answer Questions

1. To the author's mother, what was the gateway to romance?

2. What did the team receive if they won the competition between the "Army Navy" tests the civics teacher gave?

3. Did the author's mother believe her son's generation would succeed?

4. How did the Jews greet the Sabbath?

5. What were the author's lasting feelings about his school years?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe his childhood perception of the distance between Brownsville and New York?

2. Which of the buildings in Brownsville that has been demolished holds the most fond memories for the author and why?

3. Why did the author have such a hard time when his mother, cousin and her friends started talking about "Heym?"

4. 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?

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

6. Describe the feelings the author first has when he enters his childhood neighborhood.

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

8. There was one topic of discussion on the Sabbath nights that always made the author happy. What was that topic and why?

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

10. Why does the author specifically remember the second street in 'From the Subway to the Synagogue'?

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