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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book IV: The Rail, Chapters 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does David go to burn the chumitz?
(a) The roof.
(b) The harbor.
(c) The ally.
(d) The East River.

2. Why does Albert send David into his workplace alone?
(a) To tell Albert's boss Albert is ill.
(b) To collect Albert's things and his final paycheck.
(c) To beg for Albert's job.
(d) To ask the boss for a job for Genya.

3. Why didn't Genya's lover run off with her?
(a) She didn't love him anymore.
(b) He married someone else.
(c) His parents forbid it.
(d) He died.

4. Where do David and his family move to after Albert gets a job as a milkman?
(a) Ellis Island.
(b) The Lower East Side.
(c) Maine.
(d) New Jersey.

5. Who is Joe Luter?
(a) Albert's cousin.
(b) Albert's foreman.
(c) Genya's uncle.
(d) Bertha's husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Genya was young, who did she have an affair with?

2. Why does David's mother take so long to open the door?

3. What does David pray for in Book IV?

4. What does Rabbi Yidel give David for reading an entire passage in Hebrew?

5. While the boys are taunting David in Book I, who comes to the Schearl's home?

(see the answer key)

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