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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 policeman.
(d) A baseball player.

2. What does Danny Saunders tell Reuven when he visits him at the hospital in Chapter 3?
(a) He's sorry.
(b) His team lost.
(c) His team won.
(d) He will never play baseball again.

3. Reuven has been given permission to do what again in Chapter 9?
(a) Read.
(b) Ride a bicycle.
(c) Play baseball.
(d) Watch television.

4. 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?
(a) “A teacher.”
(b) “Wealth.”
(c) “A friend.”
(d) “A wife.”

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

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

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

8. According to Reuven’s father in Chapter 6, the Cossacks were members of what church in Russia?
(a) The Evangelical Church.
(b) The Pentecostal Church.
(c) The Church of Vissarionism.
(d) The Greek Orthodox Church.

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

10. Where was Shabbtai Zvi born?
(a) France.
(b) Poland.
(c) Russia.
(d) Turkey.

11. What text do Danny and Reuven spend studying at Reb Saunders’ study in Chapter 8?
(a) Sepher Yezirah.
(b) Pirkei Avot.
(c) Midrash Tanhuma.
(d) Tanakh.

12. 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 car.
(b) A friend.
(c) A wife.
(d) Wealth.

13. In what language are lessons taught at Reuven Malter’s school in Chapter 1?
(a) Hebrew.
(b) English.
(c) Jewish.
(d) Yiddish.

14. Who led the Cossacks when they rose up against the Nobles, according to Reuven’s father in Chapter 6?
(a) Bogdan Chmielnicki.
(b) Alexander Tsiurupa.
(c) Dmitry Donskoy.
(d) Dmytro Vyshnevetsky.

15. Who is Reuven Malter’s gym teacher in Chapter 1?
(a) Mr. Galanter.
(b) Mrs. Carpenter.
(c) Mr. Grossman.
(d) Mrs. Snydman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was responsible for causing Billy’s blindness in the novel?

2. Whose eye must be removed at the end of Chapter 4?

3. In Chapter 3, Danny's amazing intellect is shown through his memorizations of what?

4. In Chapter 8, Reuven describes one of his recent trips to the library when he found an article in what publication?

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

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