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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the author think he lived as a child?
(a) The best place a child could grow up.
(b) The place most suited to his family.
(c) The end of the world.
(d) The most lonely place in the world.

2. What did the women of Brownsville force their children to do?
(a) Shop for dinner.
(b) Eat.
(c) Stay outside until dinner was ready.
(d) Beat rugs on the stoop.

3. What was the author's favorite school experience?
(a) Walking past the girls' bathroom.
(b) His weekly visits with the speech pathologist.
(c) Saying the pledge of allegiance daily.
(d) Visiting the assembly hall.

4. Who did the author say it was good to be back among?
(a) His family.
(b) The children playing handball on the street.
(c) The women who shouted from the market.
(d) The children playing stickball on on the block.

5. What is seltzer to the poor Jews?
(a) A luxury.
(b) Used as a medicine.
(c) Worse than their drinking water.
(d) Something only the wealthy could acquire.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the author describe the Episcopalian church in the neighborhood?

2. Who inspired the teaching style and curriculum of the author's civics teacher?

3. Who did the author feel could intercede with God for him?

4. What nickname did the author's father give him?

5. In what battle did the brother of the author's cousin go missing?

Short Essay Questions

1. The author's mother was a dressmaker. What was her process of creation?

2. What is prohibited on the Jewish Sabbath?

3. How did the author feel about his religion teachers and why?

4. What kind of geographies does the author describe in the last part of 'From the Subway to the Synagogue'? What do describing these geographies lead to?

5. There was one topic of discussion on the Sabbath nights that always made the author happy. What was that topic and why?

6. What are some of the memories the author has about his place of worship?

7. Describe the feelings the author first has when he enters his childhood neighborhood.

8. What is the nickname the author's father gave him? What is the meaning of the nickname and did the author like his nickname?

9. Describe what happened at the drugstore after the author's childhood therapy session.

10. How does the author describe the second street he remembers and what is it's name?

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