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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Summer: The Way to Highland Park, p. 135 - 176.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the older neighbor boys do when they came home from work?
(a) Play instruments out on the street.
(b) Go out for a drink.
(c) Released pigeons.
(d) Call on the author's cousin.

3. How did the author describe the Episcopalian church in the neighborhood?
(a) Romantic and ethereal.
(b) Rundown.
(c) Quite plain.
(d) Daunting.

4. What does the author connect New York rush hour with from his childhood?
(a) The hour that moved the slowest.
(b) The hour the women worked frantically.
(c) The hour the town slept.
(d) The hour before supper.

5. What did the author rejoice to see in his kitchen?
(a) His cousin and her friends sitting at the table.
(b) More customers than his mother had ever had before.
(c) His dad covered in paint from his first job in some time.
(d) A sink full of fresh produce.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the big Italians sell and during what time?

2. 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?

3. When the author played handball, was it for fun?

4. Who did the shacks on Livonia Avenue start filling up with during the depression?

5. During the second year of The Great Depression, how long had it been since the author's father had work?

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