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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Kitchen, p. 51 - 73.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What drove the author's mother to work so hard?
(a) She felt the women in the neighborhood needed her.
(b) They needed the money.
(c) Duty to her husband.
(d) Loneliness.

3. What still lines Belmont Avenue that was there during the author's childhood?
(a) Pushcarts.
(b) Pots of flowers.
(c) Garbage.
(d) Sewage.

4. What kind of dresses did Mrs. B wear?
(a) Plain, old fashioned dressses.
(b) Stiff Nun's habits.
(c) Billowing chiffon dresses.
(d) Ankle length flowery dresses.

5. When the narrative begins, how many years has it been since the author left to live in "the city?"
(a) Five Years.
(b) Ten Years.
(c) Three Years.
(d) Thirteen Years.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the author feel about his Hebrew classes?

2. What emotion does the author speak of in great length in Section 3?

3. Did the author's mother believe her son's generation would succeed?

4. What is the name and nickname of the third street the author mentions in Part 1, pages 30-47?

5. What is the era in which the author's childhood took place?

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