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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does David's mother purchase to place in their kitchen?
2. Where is Luter from?
3. What do the chants and rhymes of the girls playing remind David of?
4. What does David discover Genya liked to do as a girl?
5. What story does David read from a blue book after the incident with the group of boys at the trolley rails?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Bertha say she enjoys about Nathan?
2. In Book I, why has Albert been fired from his job?
3. How does David get home after he gets lost in Book I?
4. Why does David go outside again after returning home from cheder following the milk route incident?
5. Why does Albert take David along on his milk route?
6. Why is 1907 an important year for Ellis Island?
7. While up on his own rooftop in Book IV, Chapters 7-14, what does David see on another rooftop?
8. What lie does David tell the rabbis when he cries at cheder?
9. What does David find relaxing about the family's apartment in the Lower East Side?
10. In Book III, what mesmerizes David as he returns to the docks?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why is the setting of Call It Sleep important? What is New York like at the time? How does the physical and historical setting affect David?
Essay Topic 2
What does the picture Genya purchases mean to her? What does it remind her of? Why does it make her happy? Does the title of this section of the book, "The Picture," refer only to the picture Genya purchases? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
Albert and David are both manipulated by people they consider friends. Albert is manipulated by Luter and David is manipulated by Leo. Compare and contrast the relationships between each of these pairs. How are Albert and David manipulated? Why do they allow themselves to be manipulated?
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