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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book I: The Cellar.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does David feel when he learns his father will be home all day while he changes jobs?
(a) Forlorn.
(b) Frightened.
(c) Excited.
(d) Happy.

2. Of the Schearl family, who arrives in America first?
(a) Bertha.
(b) Genya.
(c) Albert.
(d) David.

3. Why does Luter often come over to the Shearl's house?
(a) For dinner.
(b) To play with David.
(c) To fix things around the apartment.
(d) To drive Albert to work.

4. What new thing for David is included in dinner when Luter first comes to visit?
(a) Table manners.
(b) Dinner rolls.
(c) Pork.
(d) Conversation.

5. What happens at Ellis Island during the year in which this book begins?
(a) There is an earthquake.
(b) The highest number of immigrants are processed there.
(c) There is a bombing.
(d) The President gives a historic speech there.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was David born?

2. What frightens David most about the thought of death?

3. How does Albert react to David when David first arrives in New York?

4. How old is David when the book begins?

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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