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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One, Chapter Three.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the setting at the opening of the Introduction?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Newark.
(c) Long Island.
(d) Queens.

2. Who is the Jewish, elderly man who comes up to Reuven, Rachel and Michael?
(a) A visiting Rabbi from Israel.
(b) The local Rabbi.
(c) Michael's grandfather.
(d) The booth attendant's father.

3. What does the narrator decide to do?
(a) Join the army.
(b) Move to Israel.
(c) Return to Eurpoe after it is rebuilt.
(d) Go to rabbinical school.

4. Why are the Gordons angry with Rachel?
(a) She is with a non-Jewish date.
(b) She let Michael gamble.
(c) She didn't bring Michael home after his first nosebleed.
(d) She lied to her father.

5. How does Michael get a nosebleed?
(a) Playing soccer.
(b) Fighting.
(c) Standing up in a ride at the fair.
(d) Tripping and falling down.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why has the population of the narrator's neighborhood grown rapidly by 1950?

2. Where does Reuven go the day after the fair?

3. About what does Michael display much knowledge?

4. Who is David Malter?

5. What leads Reuven to read books by Professor Gordon?

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