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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Block and Beyond, p. 77 - 109.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the author's family regularly do after their Friday night discussions?
(a) Play conasta.
(b) Go for a walk around the neighborhood.
(c) Read the newspaper.
(d) Listen to music.

2. What was all work measured by in the author's childhood home?
(a) The length of a job.
(b) The approval of peers.
(c) The perfect skill with which it was completed.
(d) The look on mother's face when she saw the job.

3. On Fifth Avenue, the author found something he was surprised by. What was it?
(a) A painting of his mother.
(b) A painting of his home country.
(c) A painting of a nude woman.
(d) A painting of his grandparents.

4. Who could the author hear crying in the streets at night as a child?
(a) The woman down the street who's cat ran away.
(b) The man who had just lost his wife.
(c) The evicted tenants of the neighborhood.
(d) The neighborhood cats.

5. What could you see someone doing into the late hours of dusk in Brownsville?
(a) Boys playing handball.
(b) Someone sifting through garbage.
(c) Someone settling down in an empty alleyway for the night.
(d) Someone stealing coal from the cellars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument did the author play as a child?

2. How did the author's parents feel of his generation?

3. What part of the neighborhood tests the author?

4. What political way of thinking did the author's parents practice?

5. Why did the author keep going back to the barber shop?

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