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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 and his mother admire as they walked past Belmont Avenue?
(a) The jars of colored water in the drugstore.
(b) The meats hanging in the delicatessen window.
(c) The fruits and vegetables.
(d) The architecture of the new buildings going in.

2. What political party was said to be lighthearted?
(a) Republican.
(b) Communist
(c) Democrat.
(d) Socialist.

3. When the author read books, he yearned for something. What did he yearn for?
(a) Someone to walk to school with.
(b) Someone to run with at night.
(c) Someone he could bully around.
(d) Someone to be his true friend.

4. What had the author's final paper been about?
(a) His Socialist party friends.
(b) His relationship with his mother.
(c) Mrs. Solovey's suicide.
(d) A violin.

5. What did the author experience when reading the words of the little blue book?
(a) He had an moment of enlightenment.
(b) The turn of every page was a labored effort.
(c) His felt his soul die. He felt too much guilt.
(d) Words so descriptive he could sense what was happening in the book.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of coat did Mr. Solovey wear?

2. What name does the author keep calling God?

3. Where were political rival meetings held?

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

5. Why did the author believe the neighborhood madwoman stood on their stoop so long?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the second hand furniture shops remind the author of?

2. 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?

3. The author met two boys who were part of the Socialist group, David and Isrolik. What was it about these boys that the author enjoyed?

4. When the author would play games with his friends, he would usually hide in the monument works. What was significant about the monument works?

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

6. What led the author to fantasize about Mrs. Solovey every night before bed?

7. Mrs. Solovey commits suicide late in this section and it shocks the neighborhood. Describe what emotions the neighborhood go through towards the Soloveys.

8. The author was given a book and the giver was surprised. Why was she surprised?

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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