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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. Which of the following is Moshe able to book at his theatre?

2. To which of the following is the novel dedicated?

3. Which of the following had Chona’s father sold?

4. How far is Pottstown from Reading?

5. On which street was a skeleton uncovered along with red fibers, a belt buckle, and a pendant?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What story about his family does Moshe tell to keep his audience amused as they await a show?

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

4. How do local officials respond to Moshe integrating his theatre?

5. What had attracted the Black population of Pottstown to Pottstown?

6. Why does Moshe note not liking challah?

7. What does Nate use as a euphemism for his sister-in-law’s death?

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

9. How do the people of Chicken Hill regard the devastation of Hurricane Agnes?

10. Why, per Moshe, is marriage complicated for new Jewish immigrants to America?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What character is the protagonist of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store? How does the novel support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 2

Assuming that The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

The novel comments repeatedly on the South, despite taking place in what is clearly the North. How is the South figured in the novel? What effect on the reader does that figuration have? How is it produced?

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