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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does David ask Genya about after seeing a funeral procession?
(a) Death.
(b) Angels.
(c) Religion.
(d) Her parents.

3. Failing to burn a chumitz is a ____ in David's faith.
(a) Great honor.
(b) Minor sin.
(c) A sign of luck.
(d) Major sin.

4. What does Albert vow to do after being sent home from Dolman's Press?
(a) Become a millionaire.
(b) Get Luter fired.
(c) Kill Luter.
(d) Never return to Dolman's Press.

5. Why does David kick Yussie and give him a bloody nose?
(a) Yussie calls Genya ugly.
(b) Yussie hits him with a hanger.
(c) Yussie kicks him first.
(d) Yussie teases David about Annie.

6. What language do Genya and Bertha talk in that David cannot understand?
(a) Spanish.
(b) Polish.
(c) German.
(d) Yiddish.

7. A chumitz is a Passover tradition to burn what?
(a) A candle.
(b) Bread.
(c) A wooden spoon.
(d) A bowl of oil.

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

9. How does Albert treat Nathan when he came to dinner?
(a) He insults Nathan openly.
(b) He barely acknowledges Nathan.
(c) He is very kind.
(d) He is welcoming.

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

11. What is on the bottom floor of the flat David and his family live in at the beginning of the book?
(a) A candy store.
(b) A bookstore.
(c) The cellar.
(d) More apartments.

12. In Book III, David climbs through a window to get into what building?
(a) The cheder school.
(b) A candy store.
(c) His home.
(d) The elementry school.

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

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

15. Where was David born?
(a) America.
(b) Asia.
(c) Europe.
(d) Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Book I, what does Albert send David out in the freezing rain to get?

2. On the day David sees the funeral procession, what kind of contest does he see boys participating in?

3. Who starts to take David to museums and landmarks?

4. Where do David and his family move to after Albert gets a job as a milkman?

5. When David gets lost in the city, where does his mother come to pick him up?

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