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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 was the author listening to when he last saw his childhood kitchen?
(a) The first Sabbath services from Belsen concentration camp.
(b) The sound of children happily playing in the streets before suppertime.
(c) His parents fight over money.
(d) The announcement of Dwight D. Eisenhower's election as president.

2. Where did the author think he lived as a child?
(a) The end of the world.
(b) The most lonely place in the world.
(c) The best place a child could grow up.
(d) The place most suited to his family.

3. Who did the author feel could intercede with God for him?
(a) The Biblical Deborah.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) His Rabbi.

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

5. What is seltzer to the poor Jews?
(a) Worse than their drinking water.
(b) A luxury.
(c) Used as a medicine.
(d) Something only the wealthy could acquire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What feelings does the author experience when he gets off the train?

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

3. What would the author skip pages of his favorite book to read?

4. Who could the author hear crying in the streets at night as a child?

5. What is the name of the second road the author mentions?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the nickname the author's father gave him? What is the meaning of the nickname and did the author like his nickname?

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

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

4. What is prohibited on the Jewish Sabbath?

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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