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

2. Why did the author run?
(a) To train for handball.
(b) To escape the junkyard dogs.
(c) To be the first to play follow the leader.
(d) To escape his block.

3. What did the three dressmakers and the author's mother speak of that made the author upset?
(a) Home.
(b) Love.
(c) The war.
(d) Politics.

4. What countries had the Solovey's lived in?
(a) France, Italy and Ireland.
(b) Italy, France and Scotland.
(c) Palestine, France and Italy.
(d) Palestine, England and Africa.

5. Where was city land all around Brownsville? What were those pieces of land used for?
(a) A plot of land for squatters to camp.
(b) Cutting and storing tombstones.
(c) The neighborhood waste site.
(d) The neighborhood garden.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of dresses did Mrs. B wear?

2. During his childhood subway train rides to "the city," what told the author that he was on his last leg home?

3. Who did the author's father meet?

4. What emotion did the author feel when he was working during his sixteenth summer?

5. What kind of coat did Mr. Solovey wear?

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