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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. Where is the tiny bookstore Feldman often goes to in Chapter 1?
(a) Synge Street.
(b) New Bedford Place.
(c) New Utrecht Avenue.
(d) New Brunswick Avenue.

2. What bakery does Feldman's father do an odd job for?
(a) Abe's.
(b) Morty's.
(c) Beigel's.
(d) Roman's.

3. Who is Feldman's Yiddish teacher in Chapter 1?
(a) Mrs. Yindl.
(b) Mrs. Meizlish.
(c) Mrs. Wasserman.
(d) Mrs. Schiff.

4. Which English teacher is surprised when Feldman reads English so well?
(a) Mrs. Mandelbaum.
(b) Mrs. Heitzel.
(c) Mrs. Rainetz.
(d) Mrs. Moskovitz.

5. Where does Feldman think of her new English teachers as "imported" from?
(a) Queens.
(b) Borough Park.
(c) The Lower East Side.
(d) The Upper West Side.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Bubby say all bad things come from?

2. What is the most important rule of Hasidic society in terms of addressing elders?

3. What pranks do Feldman's cousin and she play together in Chapter 3?

4. What kinds of nuts does Feldman help crack in Chapter 2?

5. Which aunt of Feldman's controlled most of her early life?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Feldman think people employ her father in odd jobs?

2. How did Chaya generally treat Feldman's mother when she came to visit Feldman when Feldman was a child?

3. What does Feldman often find solace in, escaping her stifling life for a time, in Chapter 4?

4. Why does Feldman feel in Chapter 4 that everything is working against her in life?

5. What does Chaya do in front of Feldman when Feldman helps clean her apartment as a child that Feldman is in awe of?

6. What happens to Feldman in Chapter 3 when she goes to get a snow cone one day?

7. Why does Feldman interview her mother on the eve of her own twenty-fourth birthday?

8. What happens to a group of young men who rob a neighbor in Feldman's neighborhood in Chapter 4?

9. How does Feldman feel about her cousin Moshe coming to stay with her at Bubby and Zeidy's at first?

10. Where does Feldman feel most comfortable and loved when she is a child?

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