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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose eye must be removed at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) Billy Merritt's.
(b) Rav Gershenson’s.
(c) Manya's.
(d) Mr. Savo’s.

2. In Chapter 4, Reuven's father tells him that "[t]he Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself. One is to acquire” what?
(a) “A friend.”
(b) “A wife.”
(c) “A teacher.”
(d) “Wealth.”

3. Whose actions led to Reuven Malter’s injury in Chapter 2?
(a) Billy Merritt's.
(b) Danny Saunders’.
(c) Jack Rose's.
(d) Schwartzie’s.

4. Reuven discovers that his father has been invited to what meeting in Chapter 15?
(a) The Zionist General Council meeting in Palestine.
(b) The United Nations Cousel.
(c) The League of Christian and Jewish Immigrants.
(d) The International Alliance of Jews.

5. In what language are lessons taught at Reuven Malter’s school in Chapter 1?
(a) Jewish.
(b) Yiddish.
(c) English.
(d) Hebrew.

Short Answer Questions

1. While Danny reads psychological texts in Chapter 10, Reuven concentrates on what kind of articles?

2. In Chapter 5, Reuven says, "I felt I had crossed into another world, that little pieces of my old self had been left behind on the black asphalt floor of the school yard alongside” what?

3. Danny is frustrated by reading and translating his psychological texts until he finds what in Chapter 10?

4. Which character in the novel says, “It is the end of Hitler, may his name and memory be erased” in Chapter 11?

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

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