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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. Why does Sara want to run away from home?
(a) Because she is spoiled and rude to her parents.
(b) Because she wants to be a circus performer.
(c) Because she can not stand her father's preaching and her parents' bickering.
(d) Because she has a secret boyfriend.

2. Why does Shenah have to turn away so many customers from the store?
(a) Because Shenah doesn't know how to run a store.
(b) Because the store is short on help.
(c) Because they lack the items customers ask for.
(d) Because Reb tells her to.

3. How much money did Zalmon get from the lodges for his wife's death?
(a) Two thousand dollars.
(b) Ten thousand dollars.
(c) Five thousand dollars.
(d) One thousand dollars.

4. What insult does Mother call Sara when she sees what has been done to the potatoes?
(a) Traitor!
(b) Low life!
(c) Liar!
(d) Bandit!

5. How much does Sara make when she first begins her job in Chapter 10?
(a) Twenty dollars a week.
(b) Ten dollars a week.
(c) Five dollars a week.
(d) Fifteen dollars a week.

Short Answer Questions

1. What treasured item does Sara's mother save for days when the family has visitors?

2. How much does Mashah spend at the store buying her own towel, toothbrush, and soap?

3. Where does Sara find Morris Lipkin's old poems?

4. What instrument does Mashah's first true love play?

5. How many nights a week does Sara go to night school?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Reb so angry with Sara at the end of Chapter 8?

2. What steps do Shenah and Sara take to restock the store that Reb bought?

3. Why does Father get arrested and sent to court?

4. Why does Sara think herself in love with Morris Lipkin after he and Fania are no longer together?

5. What are in the three packages Bessie brings home after work to dress up the house with?

6. Who is Muhmenkeh?

7. For what reason does the man in the paper sell Reb his store for only four hundred dollars?

8. How do customers react when they are turned away by the Smolinksy family due to lack of stock in the store?

9. How does Bessie react to the news that Berel Bernstein will not marry her?

10. What does Sara's first apartment look like?

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