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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Reuven has war maps from what periodical all over his walls in Chapter 5?
(a) Newsweek.
(b) National Geographic.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) Time.

2. What does Danny Saunders want to be when he grows up in Chapter 3?
(a) A meteorologist.
(b) A chemist.
(c) A bus driver.
(d) A psychologist.

3. Danny Saunders’ father brought his congregation to the United States and settled in what neighborhood of Brooklyn?
(a) South Park Slope.
(b) Clinton hill.
(c) Sheepshead bay.
(d) Williamsburg.

4. Reuven is amazed in Chapter 5 that the baseball game accident had happened only how many days ago?
(a) 3.
(b) 8.
(c) 5.
(d) 15.

5. What led to Reuven Malter’s injury in Chapter 2?
(a) He got into a fight.
(b) A dog attacked him.
(c) He fell down the stairs.
(d) He was hit by a baseball.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose actions led to Reuven Malter’s injury in Chapter 2?

2. The Malters’ housekeeper is from where in the novel?

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

4. What is a system of assigning numerical value to a word or phrase, in the belief that words or phrases with identical numerical values bear some relation to each other, or bear some relation to the number itself as it may apply to a person's age, the calendar year, or the like?

5. What is a Jewish term referring to one who does not have a share in the world to come?

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