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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Reuven is amazed in Chapter 5 that the baseball game accident had happened only how many days ago?
(a) 8.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 15.

3. What is the name of Reuven Malter’s father in the narrative?
(a) Marcus Malter.
(b) Thomas Malter.
(c) David Malter.
(d) Roger Malter.

4. What is the name of the young blind boy that Reuven meets at the hospital in Chapter 2?
(a) Billy Merritt.
(b) Davey Canter.
(c) Sidney Goldberg.
(d) Jack Rose.

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

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

7. What is the name of the Jewish coming-of-age ritual for young boys?
(a) Ta'anit Esther.
(b) Shavout.
(c) Bar Mitzvah.
(d) Shushan Purim.

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

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

10. 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.

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

12. Reuven is preparing for what school vacation in Chapter 9?
(a) Spring break.
(b) Easter break.
(c) Hanukkah vacation.
(d) Summer vacation.

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

14. Reuven has a picture of which U.S. President on his wall in Chapter 5?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) George Washington.
(c) Woodrow Wilson.
(d) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

15. Reuven calls Billy’s home to see how his surgery went in Chapter 9. What does Reuven learn?
(a) The operation was postponed.
(b) The operation was successful.
(c) The operation was too risky and will not happen.
(d) The operation was unsuccessful.

Short Answer Questions

1. Reuven learns that Danny’s father only talks to him when in Chapter 4?

2. Danny Saunders explains to Reuven in Chapter 7 that his grandfather was a well-known Hasidic Jew from where?

3. What is the name of the nurse who is in charge of Reuven Malter in the hospital in Chapter 2?

4. 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?

5. Reuven has war maps from what periodical all over his walls in Chapter 5?

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