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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What idea does Bertha relish concerning running her own business?
(a) Being her own boss.
(b) Having employees to boss around.
(c) Choosing the candies.
(d) Being free to raise her children.

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

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

4. How many floors are in the flat that David and his family first live in?
(a) Two.
(b) Six.
(c) Nine.
(d) Three.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was David born?

3. What is on the bottom floor of the flat David and his family live in at the beginning of the book?

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

5. What signal reminds David to return home at the end of the day when he is playing outside?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does David create the flash on the trolley rail?

2. What is Genya's reaction to Albert's foul mood when she arrives in New York?

3. What is the woman the group of boys spy on while chasing the canary doing?

4. What Old Testament story does David take a particular interest in?

5. What does David hallucinate?

6. Why is 1907 an important year for Ellis Island?

7. What is a chumitz?

8. What saves David after he kicks the milk dipper on the rails?

9. What happens to the trolley after David kicks the milk dipper?

10. How does Leo say that his father died?

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