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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. How far is Pottstown from Reading?
(a) 6 miles.
(b) 9 miles.
(c) 12 miles.
(d) 3 miles.

2. For which of the following did Fatty and Big Soap work?
(a) Banner Manufacturing.
(b) General Mills.
(c) Flagg Industries.
(d) Pennant Cleaning.

3. Which interstate highway runs near Pottstown?
(a) 76.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 69.

4. What fruit does Malachi note having only tasted in America?
(a) Guava.
(b) Papaya.
(c) Banana.
(d) Kiwi.

5. Which of the following is Moshe able to book at his theatre?
(a) Count Basie.
(b) Duke Ellington.
(c) Prince.
(d) Nat King Cole.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following performed at Moshe’s theatre?

2. From whom did Malachi buy a bakery?

3. How does the text gloss the nickname given the rabbi who succeeds Chona’s father?

4. How does the novel gloss the term “kishkes”?

5. What meaning is ascribed to the nickname Chona has among the local Jewish community?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nate dispose of Malachi’s challah?

2. Why does Malachi maintain Black Americans have an advantage?

3. To what does Chona ascribe her and Moshe’s commercial success?

4. What event precipitates Bernice leaving school?

5. How does Isaac stereotype Bulgarians?

6. Why is Paper thought to be illiterate?

7. In the novel, what is the story of Moses and the burning coals?

8. Why does Chona speak against her teacher on Bernice’s behalf?

9. What occasions Dodo’s deafness?

10. How does Malachi respond to the assertion that a mezuzah belongs on a door?

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