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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. What did the big Italians sell and during what time?
2. Where did the author think he lived as a child?
3. What did the author's mother do to remember her parent's deaths?
4. What was marriage to the author's parents?
5. Where does the author step off the train when he first enters Brownsville?
Short Essay Questions
1. Which of the buildings in Brownsville that has been demolished holds the most fond memories for the author and why?
2. What kind of geographies does the author describe in the last part of 'From the Subway to the Synagogue'? What do describing these geographies lead to?
3. Why does the author specifically remember the second street in 'From the Subway to the Synagogue'?
4. During the day the author's home was different than others. How was it different?
5. Why didn't the author believe his cousin and her friends were of his parent's generation?
6. Describe the feelings the author first has when he enters his childhood neighborhood.
7. What is prohibited on the Jewish Sabbath?
8. 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?
9. How does the author describe the Episcopalian church in his childhood neighborhood?
10. What time of day was the loneliest for the author's mother and why? What brought her out of her loneliness?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In what ways did the author choose to escape his daily life? Why did the author feel he needed to escape and why is he "walking" through a time when he felt the need to escape? What is he trying to escape from that he wrote the memoir/
Essay Topic 2
During the summer of his 16th year, the author joins a group with Socialist ties. What does the author feel his connection to the Socialist group is? His parents were of the Socialist influence, was that his draw to the party or did he truly believe the party would make what was wrong in his world right?
Essay Topic 3
During the Jewish Sabbath worship, the author's family did something that was unorthodox. What was that practice and what was it's impact on the family? Explain the emotions and expressions the author's family had.
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