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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. How did the author describe the Episcopalian church in the neighborhood?
(a) Romantic and ethereal.
(b) Daunting.
(c) Rundown.
(d) Quite plain.

2. When was the Sabbath extra special for the author?
(a) When his cousin had friends over for dinner.
(b) When his mother was too sick to go to the synagogue.
(c) When his mother made his favorite dish of chicken and dumpling soup.
(d) When he was too sick to go to the synagogue.

3. How did the author feel about the women who sat around his dinner table on Friday nights?
(a) He was infatuated with one of them so he would listen in rapture to them.
(b) They were they joy in the home.
(c) They were too noisy and would escape the house.
(d) He got lost in their conversations but still sat there and listened.

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

5. How did the author feel about being confirmed?
(a) He did it out of peer pressure.
(b) He did it for the gifts.
(c) He did it for his mother and out of tradition.
(d) He was positive it was what he wanted to do.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the author think he lived as a child?

2. What did the children buy from the small Italians?

3. Did the author feel he could openly discuss his feelings about God?

4. What profession was the author's mother?

5. How did the author secretly think of the synagogue?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are some of the memories the author has about his place of worship?

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

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

5. The author liked to go to his cousin's room right before supper. What did he like to do while he was in there?

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

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

8. What is prohibited on the Jewish Sabbath?

9. Why didn't the author believe his cousin and her friends were of his parent's generation?

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

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