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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 did the author ride from the east side?
(a) The ferry.
(b) A taxi.
(c) The subway.
(d) The trolley.

2. What name does the author keep calling God?
(a) Yeshua.
(b) Jehovah.
(c) El Elyon.
(d) Elohim.

3. What did the author rejoice to see in his kitchen?
(a) More customers than his mother had ever had before.
(b) His cousin and her friends sitting at the table.
(c) His dad covered in paint from his first job in some time.
(d) A sink full of fresh produce.

4. How did the author try to show his parents he loved them?
(a) He succeeded in school.
(b) He tried to get an after school job.
(c) He played his violin for them.
(d) He hugged them.

5. What book did Isrolik carry around with him?
(a) The Waste Land.
(b) The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
(c) Poetry, The New Masses.
(d) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Mrs. Solovey commit suicide?

2. Why don't the children sleep inside?

3. Why did the author keep going back to the barber shop?

4. What did the author hide under his coat on the way home Passover week?

5. Something frightening happened to the author when we went to get coal one winter day -- what was it?

Short Essay Questions

1. The author liked to go to the courtyard to hear music, why was there always music in the courtyard?

2. Who were the two colorful women the author remembers in great detail?

3. What are the author's main means of escape in this section?

4. There were many things the author liked about David's home. What was the one thing that truly made the house stand out to him?

5. What are the details the author remembers most about the drugstore?

6. What is so significant about the author not being able to find his mother during the funeral service for Mrs. Solovey?

7. Mr. Solovey wasn't the most likable person in the neighborhood. What didn't people like about him?

8. The Soloveys were a couple no one could figure out. What about their marriage, specifically, was so mysterious?

9. Where did the author's walks take him when he walked to the edge of Brownsville?

10. When the author went to visit a friend in New York who lived in a brownstone, what did he discover?

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