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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. Where does the author believe only truly free people are from?
(a) Russia.
(b) Poland.
(c) England.
(d) New York City.
2. What did Mrs. E do when she abandoned her housework for a half hour every morning?
(a) She weeded her small flower garden.
(b) She sat in the vegetarian restaurant.
(c) She gossiped with the neighborhood ladies.
(d) She listened to her "shows" on the radio.
3. What was the author listening to when he last saw his childhood kitchen?
(a) The sound of children happily playing in the streets before suppertime.
(b) The first Sabbath services from Belsen concentration camp.
(c) His parents fight over money.
(d) The announcement of Dwight D. Eisenhower's election as president.
4. How did the author feel when he walked into his synagogue?
(a) Sad.
(b) At home.
(c) Alien.
(d) Numb.
5. What association did the New York World hold for the author?
(a) The subway.
(b) The Empire State building.
(c) The Sears Tower.
(d) The Brooklyn Bridge.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the era in which the author's childhood took place?
2. What was the author's favorite school experience?
3. What is seltzer to the poor Jews?
4. Who did the author's father meet?
5. What description does the author give Belmont Avenue?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why didn't the author believe his cousin and her friends were of his parent's generation?
2. 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?
3. Why did the author have such a hard time when his mother, cousin and her friends started talking about "Heym?"
4. The author liked to go to his cousin's room right before supper. What did he like to do while he was in there?
5. Describe what happened at the drugstore after the author's childhood therapy session.
6. Why does the author specifically remember the second street in 'From the Subway to the Synagogue'?
7. What is prohibited on the Jewish Sabbath?
8. How has the author's childhood neighborhood not changed?
9. What time of day was the loneliest for the author's mother and why? What brought her out of her loneliness?
10. What was the author most embarrassed about during his school years? What made those years worse?
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