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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Genya's mood when the family reunites in New York?
(a) Nervous.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Overjoyed.
(d) Angry.

2. What does David ask Genya about after seeing a funeral procession?
(a) Her parents.
(b) Angels.
(c) Religion.
(d) Death.

3. What does David's mother purchase to place in their kitchen?
(a) A vase.
(b) A coffee maker.
(c) A tea pot.
(d) A picture.

4. What does Rabbi Yidel teach David?
(a) Hebrew.
(b) English.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Music.

5. In Book I, why does David knock a boy to the pavement?
(a) Yussie and the boys tease him about Albert beating him.
(b) The boy calls him a dirty Jew.
(c) He runs into the boy during a game of catch.
(d) The boy speaks about Genya in a lewd manner.

6. How does David feel when he learns his father will be home all day while he changes jobs?
(a) Frightened.
(b) Forlorn.
(c) Happy.
(d) Excited.

7. When David runs into a group of boys, what do they plan to drop on the trolley rail?
(a) A piece of pipe.
(b) A spike.
(c) A stick.
(d) A metal wire.

8. Who is Joe Luter?
(a) Albert's cousin.
(b) Albert's foreman.
(c) Genya's uncle.
(d) Bertha's husband.

9. When Luter finds out that Genya has never left the neighborhood, what does he give Albert and Genya?
(a) His car.
(b) A map.
(c) Subway tickets.
(d) Theater tickets.

10. Why does Luter often come over to the Shearl's house?
(a) For dinner.
(b) To play with David.
(c) To drive Albert to work.
(d) To fix things around the apartment.

11. Where is Luter from?
(a) Ireland.
(b) Scotland.
(c) Africa.
(d) Austria.

12. How does Albert view Bertha?
(a) Crude and uncivilized.
(b) Indifferently.
(c) Beautiful and shy.
(d) Mean but pretty.

13. Why didn't Genya's lover run off with her?
(a) He died.
(b) He married someone else.
(c) His parents forbid it.
(d) She didn't love him anymore.

14. Who used coal to cleanse Isaiah's mouth?
(a) An angel.
(b) The devil.
(c) God.
(d) Isaiah's mother.

15. In Book III, David climbs through a window to get into what building?
(a) His home.
(b) The cheder school.
(c) The elementry school.
(d) A candy store.

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea does Bertha relish concerning running her own business?

2. Where does Albert get a job after he is fired?

3. What time of the day does Albert work as a milkman?

4. Of the Schearl family, who arrives in America first?

5. How does Albert react to David when David first arrives in New York?

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