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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 country did the civics teacher come from?
(a) England.
(b) Germany.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Poland.

2. What still lines Belmont Avenue that was there during the author's childhood?
(a) Pots of flowers.
(b) Pushcarts.
(c) Sewage.
(d) Garbage.

3. Did the author's mother believe her son's generation would succeed?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) She felt that Socialism would lead everyone to succeed.
(d) She thought that if they didn't follow the traditions, they would fail.

4. What was marriage to the author's parents?
(a) An institution.
(b) A whirlwind of emotions.
(c) More joyous than words could express.
(d) A life sentence.

5. When did the author feel the only time his favorite food could be eaten in "good conscience"?
(a) Saturday night.
(b) Friday night.
(c) After he finished playing stickball.
(d) On his way home from school.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What physical trait was the author most embarrassed by during his early school years?

3. What nickname does the author give the second street?

4. How did the author's parents feel of his generation?

5. What did the women of Brownsville force their children to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is prohibited on the Jewish Sabbath?

3. Describe what happened at the drugstore after the author's childhood therapy session.

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

5. 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?

6. What was the best part of the author's school experience and why?

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

8. What are the author's favorite memories from the first street in pages 'From the Subway to the Synagogue',?

9. What was the author most embarrassed about during his school years? What made those years worse?

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

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