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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. How did the author feel about the women who sat around his dinner table on Friday nights?
(a) They were they joy in the home.
(b) He got lost in their conversations but still sat there and listened.
(c) They were too noisy and would escape the house.
(d) He was infatuated with one of them so he would listen in rapture to them.

2. What did the author's mother do out of loneliness every evening?
(a) She would read from her parent's memoirs.
(b) She would cry silently at her sewing machine.
(c) She would stare out at the street.
(d) She would cry silently at the sink while she washed dishes.

3. 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?
(a) Anger.
(b) Dismay.
(c) Joy.
(d) Fear.

4. To the author's mother, what was the gateway to romance?
(a) Religion.
(b) Riches.
(c) Fashion.
(d) Status.

5. Did the author feel he could openly discuss his feelings about God?
(a) Yes.
(b) He only felt he could express them to his parents.
(c) He felt he could only discuss them with his friends from school.
(d) No.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the author's lasting feelings about his school years?

2. What did the three dressmakers and the author's mother speak of that made the author upset?

3. Where did the civics teacher stand during the tests he gave?

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

5. What did the author spend his school days staring at in fear and anxiety?

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