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

2. What is on the bottom floor of the flat David and his family live in at the beginning of the book?
(a) A candy store.
(b) The cellar.
(c) More apartments.
(d) A bookstore.

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

4. Of the Schearl family, who arrives in America first?
(a) Genya.
(b) Bertha.
(c) Albert.
(d) David.

5. How does Albert react to David when David first arrives in New York?
(a) Albert criticizes David.
(b) Albert is overjoyed to see David.
(c) Albert hugs David.
(d) Albert ignores David.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who babysits David while his parents go out in Book I?

2. What is the coming of age celebration for Jewish boys?

3. What do the boys want to cause with the trolley rail?

4. What does Rabbi Yidel give David for reading an entire passage in Hebrew?

5. How does Rabbi Yidel feel about the younger generation of Jewish boys?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the trolley after David kicks the milk dipper?

2. Why does David have some difficulty listening in on his mother's conversations with Bertha?

3. Why does Leo want to go meet David's cousins, Esther and Polly?

4. What does Albert do when he learns that milk has been stolen from his wagon?

5. After Albert beats David for lying to the rabbi, what does Genya tell David to do?

6. What is a chumitz?

7. How does Leo say that his father died?

8. Why does David kick Yussie causing a bloody nose?

9. When David goes to Aunt Bertha's candy shop to see if Bertha has what he needs to go to Leo's neighborhood, what does Bertha ask David to do?

10. What happens to Albert before he has a chance to lash out at Luter at their workplace?

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