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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 countries had the Solovey's lived in?
(a) France, Italy and Ireland.
(b) Italy, France and Scotland.
(c) Palestine, England and Africa.
(d) Palestine, France and Italy.

2. What hadn't the author learned yet when he had the discussion in a foreign language with Mrs. Solovey?
(a) Conjugated verbs.
(b) Reular verbs.
(c) Equatives.
(d) Irregular verbs.

3. The author needed something urgent at the end of the chapter, The Block and Beyond, Pages 109-131. What did he need?
(a) To see his father.
(b) To say his final goodbyes.
(c) To use the facilities.
(d) To see his mother.

4. What did the women of Brownsville expect to receive from the drugstore owner?
(a) Credit.
(b) Free samples.
(c) Beauty tips.
(d) Sweets.

5. Who were the author's friends?
(a) The characters from his books.
(b) The boys who lived on Pitkin Street.
(c) The boys from his Hebrew classes.
(d) The characters in the Bible.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author want more than anything?

2. Mr. and Mrs. Solovey had children, what were their children?

3. Where were political rival meetings held?

4. What did Mr. Solovey wear that was unusual to the author?

5. What emotion did the author feel when he was working during his sixteenth summer?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. The author and his mother take a day trip to a local attraction. Where did they go and what did they experience?

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

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

7. Why is the idea of "beyond' so important to the author?

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

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

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

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