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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many blocks away from Reuven Malter does Danny Saunders live in Chapter 1?
(a) 10.
(b) 12.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

2. Danny Saunders jokes that he is what to Reuven Malter in Chapter 4?
(a) A father figure.
(b) The Messiah.
(c) A saint.
(d) A brother.

3. 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?
(a) Polish.
(b) Spanish.
(c) Dutch.
(d) German.

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

5. What is the name of the ex-boxer who stays in the hospital bed by Reuven in Chapter 2?
(a) Mr. Canter.
(b) Mr. Merritt.
(c) Mr. Gershenson.
(d) Mr. Savo.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When was Shabbtai Zvi born?

3. What name refers to a set of small black leather boxes containing scrolls of parchment inscribed with verses from the Torah, which are worn by observant Jews during weekday morning prayers?

4. Who from Reuven’s baseball team visits him at the hospital in Chapter 3?

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

(see the answer key)

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