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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did James' father die of?
(a) Polio
(b) Brain disease
(c) Measles
(d) Lung cancer

2. What is the name of Ruth's best friend?
(a) Daisy
(b) Peter
(c) Lauren
(d) Frances

3. What city does Sam leave for?
(a) New York
(b) Chicago
(c) Los Angeles
(d) San Francisco

4. What religion was James' father?
(a) Christian
(b) Jewish
(c) Muslim
(d) Hindu

5. What do the muggers spill on the sidewalk?
(a) Ruth's loose change
(b) Ruth's groceries
(c) Their blood
(d) Their cans of Coke

6. What did the blacks come into the store to purchase in the Thirties?
(a) Gun powder
(b) BC powder
(c) Paracetemol
(d) Guns

7. Which member of Ruth's family dies while she is in New York?
(a) Her brother
(b) Her father
(c) Her sister
(d) Her grandfather

8. Who comes to meet James when his mother does not show up?
(a) A rabbi
(b) His step father
(c) His siblings
(d) His father

9. Who is the first person to find out about Ruth's pregnancy?
(a) Her father
(b) Aunt Mary
(c) Her mother
(d) Frances

10. Who does Ruth's father think is trying to steal from him?
(a) Blacks
(b) Orphans
(c) School children
(d) Jews

11. What does Ruth use the money she steals for?
(a) To buy good food
(b) To go to the movies
(c) To buy make up
(d) To travel

12. What does James say the preacher at church dots his sermons with?
(a) Singing
(b) Hand claps
(c) Amens
(d) Laughs

13. What kind of shops are in Manhattan's Lower East Side?
(a) Jewish shops
(b) Muslim shops
(c) Music shops
(d) Gentile shops

14. What does Ruth say God is?
(a) The almighty
(b) A spirit
(c) A fun guy
(d) A devil

15. Where does Ruth take her children shopping?
(a) Brooklyn
(b) Greenwich Village
(c) The Bronx
(d) Manhatten's Lower East Side

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Ruth's family live when they first arrived in America?

2. What do the muggers take from Ruth?

3. What does Ruth drink tea from?

4. From whose death does James say his mother never recovers?

5. What was Ruth's maiden name?

(see the answer keys)

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