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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book IV: The Rail, Chapters 15-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is David moved to immediately after he is electrocuted?
(a) The cobbles.
(b) The hospital.
(c) The rails.
(d) Steps.

2. What does David realize about the story the boys who chase the bird tell him?
(a) It is all a lie.
(b) The boys actually killed the bird.
(c) The woman is his mother.
(d) The woman is his Aunt Bertha.

3. After leaving home following the milk route incident, when does David plan to return home?
(a) Never.
(b) At dinner time.
(c) After sunset.
(d) After Albert goes to bed.

4. Why does Leo want to meet David's cousins?
(a) He would like a job at the candy store.
(b) He is lonely.
(c) He doesn't know any girls.
(d) He hopes to fondle them.

5. Failing to burn a chumitz is a ____ in David's faith.
(a) Major sin.
(b) Minor sin.
(c) Great honor.
(d) A sign of luck.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Genya's father determined to marry her off?

2. In Book I, what does Albert send David out in the freezing rain to get?

3. Why does Luter stop coming to the Shearl's for dinner?

4. Where does David put the calendar pages he tears from the calendar every day?

5. Why does Luter often come over to the Shearl's house?

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