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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 feelings does the author experience when he gets off the train?
(a) Fear, loathing, and disgust.
(b) Rage, dread and unexpected tenderness.
(c) Hope, lightheartedness and joy.
(d) No feelings at all.

2. In front of what building did the author's father meet every Saturday morning?
(a) The coffee shop.
(b) The delicatessen.
(c) The Municipal Bank.
(d) The hardware store.

3. Where did the author run away from his father?
(a) Grand Army Plaza.
(b) Atlantic Avenue.
(c) Prospect Park.
(d) The Abraham and Straus Store.

4. How did the Jews greet the Sabbath?
(a) "As a ghost."
(b) "As a bride."
(c) "As a groom."
(d) "As a newborn babe."

5. What did the Jews of Brownsville think of someone "going their own way" or not following tradition?
(a) It was unthinkable.
(b) It was courageous.
(c) It was radical.
(d) It wasn't done.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the narrative begins, how many years has it been since the author left to live in "the city?"

2. What did the street always smell faintly of?

3. What is the era in which the author's childhood took place?

4. Who did the author's father meet?

5. The author preferred the movie house over the synagogue, why did he favor the movie house?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. How has the author's childhood neighborhood not changed?

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

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

6. Who does the author feel is his advocate in religion? How does the author feel about God?

7. What is prohibited on the Jewish Sabbath?

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

9. 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?

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

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