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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Leo and David get to Bertha's?
(a) Walking.
(b) In a car.
(c) On bikes.
(d) On skates.

2. What lie does David tell the rabbis about his father?
(a) He never knew his father.
(b) His father is dead.
(c) His father is Nathan.
(d) His father is an organist in Europe.

3. Where does David go to avoid his father's return when he gets home after going on the milk route with Albert?
(a) The cellar.
(b) His room.
(c) Outside.
(d) Bertha's candy store.

4. Where does Leo's mother work?
(a) At a diner.
(b) At the school.
(c) In a factory.
(d) In a bank as a custodian.

5. What happened to Leo's father?
(a) Leo's mother never married him.
(b) He was put in a mental institution.
(c) He was killed.
(d) He divorced Leo's mother.

6. Why does David's mother take so long to open the door?
(a) She is doing the laundry.
(b) She is asleep.
(c) She is cooking.
(d) She is bathing.

7. What lie does David tell the rabbis about his mother?
(a) She is abusive.
(b) She is dying.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) She is dead.

8. During cheder, who insists that David tell what is bothering him?
(a) Nathan and Bertha.
(b) Esther and Polly.
(c) Albert and Genya.
(d) The rabbis.

9. What soothes David following the milk route incident?
(a) Looking out the skylight window.
(b) Thinking about God.
(c) His mother's love.
(d) His blanket.

10. After Albert drops David off from the milk route, where is he instructed to go?
(a) Bertha's.
(b) To cheder.
(c) School.
(d) Home.

11. What do the boys see through a window while chasing the bird?
(a) David being beaten.
(b) A woman bathing.
(c) A woman sleeping.
(d) The bird returning home.

12. Where does the rabbi send David from cheder in Book IV?
(a) Home.
(b) The store.
(c) The cellar.
(d) The coat room.

13. What does David realize about the story the boys who chase the bird tell him?
(a) The boys actually killed the bird.
(b) The woman is his Aunt Bertha.
(c) It is all a lie.
(d) The woman is his mother.

14. Whose picture is on the wall in Leo's house?
(a) The president.
(b) A famous actor.
(c) Leo.
(d) Jesus.

15. Following the event with Leo and his cousin, what does David do during cheder?
(a) Cry.
(b) Get in a fight.
(c) Talk out of turn.
(d) Yell at the rabbi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Leo's last name?

2. Why does Albert take part of another milkman's route?

3. What does David find out about Albert's childhood?

4. Where does David find the item he brings Albert to beat him with?

5. When David arrives home after lying at cheder, who is there talking to his parents?

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