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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 Albert vow to do after being sent home from Dolman's Press?

2. After the dinner with Nathan and the family becomes tense, what does Nathan suggest?

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

4. Why was Genya's father determined to marry her off?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does David find relaxing about the family's apartment in the Lower East Side?

2. What dismays Rabbi Yidel about the younger generation of Jewish boys?

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

4. When David goes to Aunt Bertha's candy shop to see if Bertha has what he needs to go to Leo's neighborhood, what does Bertha ask David to do?

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

6. When David returns home from his and Leo's visit to Bertha's daughters, what is David afraid his parents will find out?

7. What does David hallucinate?

8. What does Genya tell David she thinks God is like?

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

10. What does David find on the roof of his own building after listening to the boys' story of the canary chase?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Bertha and Genya. What makes them so different from one another despite their common past? What has happened to Genya that makes her the way she is?

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

David is placed into several situations where sex or sexuality are involved. What are those situations? How do they affect David? What role does David play in the situations?

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