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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Reuven do in order to save a creature caught in a spider web in Chapter 9?
(a) Destroys the web with a stick.
(b) Blows on the web.
(c) Catches the spider with a jar.
(d) Crushes the spider.

2. The Malters’ housekeeper is from where in the novel?
(a) Kenya.
(b) Russia.
(c) Turkey.
(d) France.

3. Danny Saunders explains to Reuven in Chapter 7 that his grandfather was a well-known Hasidic Jew from where?
(a) Poland.
(b) Russia.
(c) England.
(d) Sweden.

4. What does Reuven tell Mr. Savo his father wants him to be when he grows up in Chapter 3?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) A banker.
(d) A mathematician.

5. Reuven’s reaction to the spider web on his porch in Chapter 9 demonstrates what characteristic in Reuven?
(a) Voyeurism.
(b) Sadism.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Masochism.

Short Answer Questions

1. After not seeing him for several months, Reuven goes to visit Danny at the end of which month in Chapter 11?

2. What kind of school does Reuven Malter attend in Chapter 1?

3. Reuven becomes upset because whose notions contradict everything he knows in Chapter 12?

4. When Danny Saunders visits Reuven for the second time at the hospital, he reveals that during the baseball game he had wanted to do what?

5. Who in the Saunders home has unexplained crying spells in Chapter 12?

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