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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. During the summer, children sleep somewhere other than their beds in Brownsville. Where do they sleep?
(a) The living room.
(b) The front porch.
(c) The kitchen.
(d) The fire escapes.

2. Who was the neighbor girl dating that her mother was ashamed of?
(a) An Italian boy.
(b) An Irish boy.
(c) A Negro boy.
(d) A French boy.

3. What did the author think about museums and parks?
(a) They were painful.
(b) They were intriguing.
(c) They were the highlight of his childhood.
(d) They were a way to escape Brownsville.

4. What was the first restaurant the author ever sat in?
(a) "Adina's Cafe."
(b) "The Corner Bakery."
(c) The "Coffee Pot."
(d) "Elliott's Deli."

5. Who's name was on the sign the boys pasted to the outside wall of a house on Chester Street?
(a) Cy Young.
(b) Dazzy Vance.
(c) Eddie Cicotte.
(d) Babe Ruth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why don't the children sleep inside?

2. Which of the stations is the author's favorite?

3. Why did the author play the violin for the barber?

4. What did the fat brother that owned the barber shop put through the delicatessen window?

5. Why did the author daydream of Mrs. Solovey?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Mrs. Solovey makes a visit to the author's home, she engages the author in conversation but soon becomes frustrated. Why does she become frustrated?

2. What did the author write his final high school paper on?

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

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

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

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

7. What did the author do after the other boys had gone inside and why?

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

9. What was the reaction of the person who read the author's final high school paper?

10. The author gave Mrs. Solovey an alternative name -- what was the name and why did he give it to her?

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