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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Reuven's father remarks in Chapter 4, "No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes” what?
(a) “Poor.”
(b) “Unfortunate.”
(c) “Angry.”
(d) “Abandoned.”

2. What is the seventh day of the Jewish week and the Jewish day of rest?
(a) Rishon.
(b) Shlishi.
(c) Reviʻi.
(d) Shabbat.

3. Danny Saunders finds Reuven at the library and reads aloud to him passages from what book in Chapter 8?
(a) The History of the Jews.
(b) Jews, Gentiles, and Christianity.
(c) The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels.
(d) Jews, God, and History.

4. While Danny reads psychological texts in Chapter 10, Reuven concentrates on what kind of articles?
(a) Geological.
(b) Biological.
(c) Mathematical.
(d) Physiological.

5. Who meets regularly with Reuven and Danny at the library in Chapter 10?
(a) David Malter.
(b) Sidney Goldberg.
(c) Davey Cantor.
(d) Billy Merritt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Reuven Malter is told that he will be released from the hospital when in Chapter 4?

2. Danny Saunders explains to Reuven in Chapter 8 that he wants to read Freud but first must learn what in order to read his original writings?

3. What does Reuven Malter’s father bring to him while he is in the hospital in Chapter 2?

4. Reuven’s father says that in 1700 a Jewish child named Israel was born. Instead of studying the Talmud, Israel studied what?

5. What is the name of the ex-boxer who stays in the hospital bed by Reuven in Chapter 2?

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