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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Reuven Malter is told that he will be released from the hospital when in Chapter 4?
(a) At the end of the week.
(b) In 6 hours.
(c) At the end of the month.
(d) In 12 hours.

2. In the beginning of Chapter 3, the hospital patients are listening to the news about what historical event?
(a) The John F. Kennedy assassination.
(b) The moon landing.
(c) The dropping of the atomic bomb.
(d) “D-Day.”

3. 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?
(a) Talmud.
(b) Payot.
(c) Shabbat.
(d) Gematriya.

4. Only what language is spoken at the service at Danny Saunders’ synagogue in Chapter 7?
(a) Yiddish.
(b) Russian.
(c) Hebrew.
(d) English.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Malters’ housekeeper in Chapter 5?

2. Danny Saunders’ father brought his congregation to the United States and settled in what neighborhood of Brooklyn?

3. Reuven has a picture of what physicist on his wall in Chapter 5?

4. What is the Hebrew word for sidelocks or sidecurls within the Jewish tradition?

5. What led to Reuven Malter’s injury in Chapter 2?

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