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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Reuven forbidden to do while he recovers in the hospital in Chapter 3?
(a) Read.
(b) Pray.
(c) Eat.
(d) Use the bathroom.

2. 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?
(a) Steal home plate.
(b) Break Reuven’s head open with a bat.
(c) Be part of a triple play.
(d) His a home run.

3. In Chapter 4, Reuven's father tells him that "[t]he Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself.” Reuven chimes in to say that the second thing is to acquire what?
(a) A friend.
(b) Wealth.
(c) A car.
(d) A wife.

4. Reuven has not seen Danny Saunders in how long in the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) 2 months.
(b) 8 hours.
(c) 1 week.
(d) 4 days.

5. 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?
(a) “The torn pages of the Talmud.”
(b) “The tattered shards of my ego.”
(c) “The trampled shards of my Tefillin.”
(d) “The shattered lends of my glasses.”

6. When was Shabbtai Zvi born?
(a) 1407.
(b) 1626.
(c) 1493.
(d) 1558.

7. What does Reuven tell Mr. Savo he wants to be when he grows up in Chapter 3?
(a) A rabbi.
(b) An astronaut.
(c) A baseball player.
(d) A policeman.

8. Reuven’s father says that in 1700 a Jewish child named Israel was born. Instead of studying the Talmud, Israel studied what?
(a) The Midrash.
(b) The Nevi'im.
(c) The Kabbalah.
(d) The Mishnah.

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

10. Reuven is not allowed to read yet, so he goes over what in his head at the library in Chapter 8?
(a) The American Civil War.
(b) Propositional calculus.
(c) Geography.
(d) Baseball games.

11. Who does Reuven Malter hear groaning from his hospital bed in the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Mr. Merritt.
(b) Mr. Savo.
(c) Mr. Carpenter.
(d) Mr. Cantor.

12. What is the Hebrew word for sidelocks or sidecurls within the Jewish tradition?
(a) Tefillin.
(b) Nisan.
(c) Payot.
(d) Seder.

13. Danny Saunders plans on studying the Talmud and reading the works of whom during his vacation in Chapter 9?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Sigmund Freud.
(c) George Washington.
(d) William Shakespeare.

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

15. By what name is Danny Saunders’ father referred to in the novel?
(a) Reb Saunders.
(b) Max Saunders.
(c) Jed Saunders.
(d) Don Saunders.

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. What does Reuven’s father refer to as discussion about the Talmud that has no relationship to the world in Chapter 6?

3. In describing the history of the Jews, Reuven’s father says in Chapter 6 that which European country encouraged Jews to come live there because the country was poor and needed a boost to the economy?

4. What is the name of the ex-boxer who stays in the hospital bed by Reuven in Chapter 2?

5. According to Reuven’s father in Chapter 6, the Cossacks fought against the Jews in what year?

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