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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book IV: The Rail, Chapters 15-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who finds out what is going on between Leo and Esther and threatens to tell Bertha?
(a) David.
(b) Albert.
(c) Nathan.
(d) Polly.

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

3. In the chapter "The Rail," what is David called on to do during cheder?
(a) Serve the rabbi tea.
(b) Recite a passage.
(c) Read before the rabbi's supervisor.
(d) Write a passage on the chalk board.

4. Who does David see as his refuge?
(a) Esther.
(b) His mother.
(c) Leo.
(d) Albert.

5. Where does Leo often go to play?
(a) To Bertha's house.
(b) Behind the school.
(c) The cellar.
(d) His old neighborhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect do the quiet and the water of the river have on David?

2. In Book III, what does David begin to attend after school?

3. What industry does Albert work in at the beginning of the book?

4. Failing to burn a chumitz is a ____ in David's faith.

5. Why was Genya's father determined to marry her off?

(see the answer key)

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