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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 team receive if they won the competition between the "Army Navy" tests the civics teacher gave?
(a) An automatic passing grade on a test.
(b) A blue star.
(c) A free pass to the bathroom.
(d) A gold star.

2. What did the boy do to win over the neighbor girl's mother?
(a) Pay her bills.
(b) Fix her leaky pipes.
(c) Cook her dinner.
(d) Offer to become a Jew.

3. What were the author's lasting feelings about his school years?
(a) A feeling of success.
(b) A feeling of inadequacy.
(c) A hopeful feeling of accomplishment.
(d) A lifelong sense of being judged.

4. What did the children buy from the Syrian vendors?
(a) Manoushah.
(b) Yaknit al-kama.
(c) Halvah.
(d) Couscous.

5. What political way of thinking did the author's parents practice?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Marxism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Republican.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What let the author know how he felt after he read his prayer book?

3. What country did the civics teacher come from?

4. When the author discovers a new development in a familiar part of town, he had a particular feeling toward seeing the development. What was the feeling he had?

5. What was marriage to the author's parents?

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