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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the author run away from his father?

2. What did the author's mother do out of loneliness every evening?

3. Who did the author say it was good to be back among?

4. What trait did the author's mother posses that she was most ashamed of?

5. What instrument did the author play as a child?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the memories the author has about his place of worship?

2. What is prohibited on the Jewish Sabbath?

3. What are the author's favorite memories from the first street in pages 'From the Subway to the Synagogue',?

4. How did the author feel about his religion teachers and why?

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

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

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

8. There was one topic of discussion on the Sabbath nights that always made the author happy. What was that topic and why?

9. In what ways did the kitchen hold the author's mother's character?

10. The author liked to go to his cousin's room right before supper. What did he like to do while he was in there?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author walks through his childhood neighborhood describing significant places and moments. What could his reasoning for walking through his childhood be?

Essay Topic 2

Who does the author discover in the last section that makes the most impact on him? How does the author's discovery of this person lead him to even stronger feelings of "beyond' being attainable?

Essay Topic 3

A continuing theme in the book is of light and darkness, both literal and metaphorical. Please give examples from the book how this is portrayed. What other ideas could be connected to the idea of light and dark?

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