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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How old is Reuven Malter in Chapter 1?
(a) 15.
(b) 7.
(c) 10.
(d) 12.

6. Reuven goes onto his front porch and observes what caught in a spider web in Chapter 9?
(a) A grasshopper.
(b) A housefly.
(c) A dragonfly.
(d) An ant.

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

8. According to Reuven’s father in Chapter 6, the Cossacks fought against the Jews in what year?
(a) 1587.
(b) 1648.
(c) 1784.
(d) 1522.

9. Who is the attending doctor to Reuven Malter during his hospital stay in Chapter 2?
(a) Dr. Snydman.
(b) Dr. Robinson.
(c) Dr. Lawrence.
(d) Dr. Martin.

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

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

12. Danny Saunders and Reuven Malter discover they were born how far apart in Chapter 7?
(a) 3 weeks.
(b) 7 weeks.
(c) 8 days.
(d) 2 days.

13. 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.

14. In Chapter 8, Reuven describes one of his recent trips to the library when he found an article in what publication?
(a) The Journal of Symbolic Logic.
(b) The Journal of the American Medical Association.
(c) Psychology Weekly.
(d) Reader's Digest.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Danny Saunders finds Reuven at the library and reads aloud to him passages from what book in Chapter 8?

2. What is the Hebrew word for sidelocks or sidecurls within the Jewish tradition?

3. What does Reuven do in order to save a creature caught in a spider web in Chapter 9?

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

5. What refers to a front-buttoned coat or overdress, usually reaching to the ankles, with long sleeves, worn by Hasidic Jews?

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