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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does David put the calendar pages he tears from the calendar every day?
(a) In a shoe box.
(b) In the fireplace.
(c) Under his bed.
(d) In the garbage.

3. What does Rabbi Yidel teach David?
(a) Hebrew.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Music.
(d) English.

4. When Genya was young, who did she have an affair with?
(a) A rabbi.
(b) A rich Jewish man.
(c) A Buddhist.
(d) A goy church organist.

5. What is the coming of age celebration for Jewish boys?
(a) Passover.
(b) Cheder.
(c) Chumitz.
(d) Bar Mitzvah.

6. What time of the day does Albert work as a milkman?
(a) During the day.
(b) At night.
(c) Only in the early hours of the morning.
(d) In the afternoon.

7. What kind of job does Albert look for after he leaves his job at Dolman's Press?
(a) One where he can boss other people around.
(b) Banking.
(c) His own store.
(d) One where he can be his own boss and work outside.

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

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

10. What languages do Genya and Bertha talk in that David can understand?
(a) Polish and English.
(b) Italian and German.
(c) Spanish and German.
(d) Yiddish and English.

11. What do the boys want to cause with the trolley rail?
(a) An electric flash.
(b) A fire.
(c) A black out.
(d) An arch.

12. Why did Genya marry Albert?
(a) She loves him.
(b) To escape her father.
(c) He is handsome.
(d) They had similar goals.

13. When David runs into a group of boys, what do they plan to drop on the trolley rail?
(a) A piece of pipe.
(b) A metal wire.
(c) A stick.
(d) A spike.

14. Where does Bertha meet Nathan?
(a) At church.
(b) At work.
(c) On the bus.
(d) At the dentist's office.

15. According to David's mother, who is brighter than the brightest day?
(a) The devil.
(b) David.
(c) God.
(d) An angel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens at Ellis Island during the year in which this book begins?

2. Who used coal to cleanse Isaiah's mouth?

3. What does David ask Genya about after seeing a funeral procession?

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

5. What does David do to earn a penny from an old woman?

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