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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While he is hospitalized in Chapter 12, Reuven’s father reads everything he can about what?
(a) Fly fishing.
(b) The American Revolution.
(c) The Spanish Empire.
(d) The downfall of European Jewry.

2. Where is Reuven’s father when he collapses and is taken to the hospital in Chapter 14?
(a) The American Museum of Natural History.
(b) The Jewish National Fund Meeting.
(c) Central Park.
(d) The Jewish National Fund Meeting.

3. What does Reuven ask Danny when he visits him after starting his studies in the end of Chapter 18?
(a) If he will be married soon.
(b) If he is pursuing his law degree.
(c) If he has had a daughter.
(d) If he will raise his son in silence.

4. Danny Saunders discusses his feelings about experimental psychology with what professor in Chapter 13?
(a) David Malter.
(b) Dr. Grossman.
(c) Dr. Snydman.
(d) Professor Applebaum.

5. When Franklin Roosevelt dies in the narrative, Reuven’s father comments that he had seen the country through what?
(a) The age of electricity.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) The Bronze Age.
(d) The Great Depression.

6. When did D-Day occur in World War II?
(a) December 3, 1942.
(b) April 12, 1945.
(c) June 6, 1944.
(d) September 27, 1943.

7. What is the financial center of the State of Israel?
(a) Jerusalem.
(b) Kafr Qasim.
(c) Rehovot.
(d) Tel Aviv.

8. Who is elected President of his class in Chapter 11?
(a) Reuven Malter.
(b) Davey Cantor.
(c) Rav Gershenson.
(d) Danny Saunders.

9. In Chapter 18, Reuven and Danny complete their undergraduate college degrees, both earning what honors?
(a) Summa cum laude.
(b) Cum laude.
(c) Gamma cum laude.
(d) Magna cum laude.

10. Danny Saunders has decided that he wants to pursue his studies in what in Chapter 16?
(a) Clinical psychology.
(b) Military psychology.
(c) Development psychology.
(d) Comparative psychology.

11. Which character in the novel says, “It is the end of Hitler, may his name and memory be erased” in Chapter 11?
(a) Reb Saunders.
(b) Reuven Malter.
(c) Rav Gershenson.
(d) David Malter.

12. Who meets regularly with Reuven and Danny at the library in Chapter 10?
(a) Sidney Goldberg.
(b) Billy Merritt.
(c) David Malter.
(d) Davey Cantor.

13. In Chapter 13, Danny is upset to find that Hirsch College studies experimental psychology as opposed to what?
(a) Freudian psychology.
(b) Clinical psychology.
(c) Animal psychology.
(d) Adolesent psychology.

14. Reuven discovers that his father has been invited to what meeting in Chapter 15?
(a) The Zionist General Council meeting in Palestine.
(b) The International Alliance of Jews.
(c) The United Nations Cousel.
(d) The League of Christian and Jewish Immigrants.

15. Where do Reuven, Danny, and Reb Saunders meet in Chapter 18?
(a) Reb Saunders’ study.
(b) A baseball game.
(c) The library.
(d) In front of the school.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt born?

2. What organization does Reb Saunders originate and develop in Chapter 14?

3. What name refers to the genocide of millions of European Jews during World War II?

4. What is the standard Hebrew Biblical term for non-Jews?

5. Danny Saunders claims to have learned how do live with what in Chapter 16?

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