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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. How did the author feel about the women who sat around his dinner table on Friday nights?
2. When was the author's "great moment" of the Sabbath?
3. At what age are Jewish boys "confirmed?"
4. What did the children buy from the small Italians?
5. What was the author's favorite school experience?
Short Essay Questions
1. The author's mother was a dressmaker. What was her process of creation?
2. What was the author most embarrassed about during his school years? What made those years worse?
3. In the middle of the first section, 'From the Subway to the Synagogue', what is the first street the author mentions and how does he describe it?
4. In what ways did the kitchen hold the author's mother's character?
5. The author liked to go to his cousin's room right before supper. What did he like to do while he was in there?
6. How does the author feel about his childhood school?
7. Who does the demolished part of the author's childhood neighborhood remind the author of and why was she so important to him?
8. Describe the feelings the author first has when he enters his childhood neighborhood.
9. Why does the author specifically remember the second street in 'From the Subway to the Synagogue'?
10. Why did the author have such a hard time when his mother, cousin and her friends started talking about "Heym?"
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the second section, the author is given a nickname by his father. This nickname deeply affects the author. With specific examples from the text, please describe how it touched the author and how his view of his father changed at that point.
Essay Topic 2
In specific detail from the book, list important objects from the author's childhood kitchen and their role in his daily life and the energy of the home.
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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