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

2. What do the chants and rhymes of the girls playing remind David of?

3. What does Albert vow to do after being sent home from Dolman's Press?

4. How old is David when the book begins?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the reunion between Genya, David, and Albert like when Genya and David get to New York?

2. What does Bertha say she enjoys about Nathan?

3. While up on his own rooftop in Book IV, Chapters 7-14, what does David see on another rooftop?

4. Why does Leo want to go meet David's cousins, Esther and Polly?

5. When Yussie and a group of boys taunt David in the streets about his father beating him, what does David do?

6. After going on the milk route with Albert, why is David unable to perform at cheder?

7. Why does David's family move to the Lower East Side?

8. What happens while Albert is whipping David for lying to the rabbi?

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

10. Why is David disconcerted by the story the boys tell about what they saw from a rooftop?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

David experiences a great deal of fear in his life. What are some of his fears? How do his fears affect him? Is he able to overcome those fears? If so, how?

Essay Topic 2

Why does David have a visionary experience at the river? What does his vision mean? Is it truly a vision or just a memory?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss David's journey through the book. Does he undergo some changes? If so, what are the changes? What causes the changes?

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