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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. When Luter finds out that Genya has never left the neighborhood, what does he give Albert and Genya?
(a) Subway tickets.
(b) Theater tickets.
(c) A map.
(d) His car.

2. What does Rabbi Yidel give David for reading an entire passage in Hebrew?
(a) A penny.
(b) A piece of candy.
(c) A nickel.
(d) A dime.

3. Where is Bertha from?
(a) Austria.
(b) England.
(c) Scotland.
(d) Ireland.

4. What do the chants and rhymes of the girls playing remind David of?
(a) A sister that died.
(b) Being teased.
(c) Sheep in a field.
(d) Rivers, roads, and trees.

5. What story does David read from a blue book after the incident with the group of boys at the trolley rails?
(a) David and Goliath.
(b) Job.
(c) The Ten Commandments.
(d) Isaiah and the coal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Albert vow to do after being sent home from Dolman's Press?

2. After Albert drops David off from the milk route, where is he instructed to go?

3. What is on the bottom floor of the flat David and his family live in at the beginning of the book?

4. How does David feel when he learns his father will be home all day while he changes jobs?

5. "Goy" is a Jewish term for what?

(see the answer key)

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