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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the news of unconditional surrender comes from the Germans, it is determined that the death toll of the Jews murdered in the concentration camps was over how many?
(a) 6 million.
(b) 11 million.
(c) 25 million.
(d) 2 million.

2. Passover is a commemoration of the story of what?
(a) The Crucifixion.
(b) The Exodust.
(c) The birth of Moses.
(d) The birth of Christ.

3. Danny is frustrated by reading and translating his psychological texts until he finds what in Chapter 10?
(a) A newspaper article.
(b) A dictionary of psychological terms.
(c) An essay by a former student.
(d) A medical journal.

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

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

6. In Chapter 16, Reuven's father says, "A father can bring up a child any way he wishes...What a price to pay for a” what?
(a) “Soul.”
(b) “Grandson.”
(c) “Life.”
(d) “Human.”

7. Reuven and Danny have intense debates during whose class in Chapter 16?
(a) David Malter's.
(b) Nathan Appleman’s.
(c) Reb Saunders'.
(d) Rav Gershenson's.

8. When did President Franklin Delano Roosevelt die?
(a) August 3, 1954.
(b) April 12, 1945.
(c) December 9, 1923.
(d) February 25, 1938.

9. Danny Saunders applies to programs at what three educational institutions in Chapter 17?
(a) Stanford, Harvard, and Rutgers.
(b) Stanford, Yale, Harvard.
(c) Harvard, Berkeley and Columbia.
(d) Rutgers, Columbia, and Yale.

10. When did the Battle of the Bulge begin?
(a) December, 1944.
(b) May, 1945.
(c) October, 1945.
(d) August, 1944.

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

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

13. After not seeing him for several months, Reuven goes to visit Danny at the end of which month in Chapter 11?
(a) November.
(b) February.
(c) August.
(d) May.

14. What is a form of nationalism of Jews and Jewish culture that supports a Jewish nation state in territory defined as the Land of Israel?
(a) Patriotism.
(b) Mormonism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Zionism.

15. On what date are Reuven and his father overjoyed to learn that the establishment of a Jewish state is going to happen in Chapter 14?
(a) August 11.
(b) June 16.
(c) November 29.
(d) March 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did D-day take place in World War II?

2. Who is the physician attending on Reuven’s father while he is hospitalized in Chapter 12?

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

4. Reb Saunders likens Danny Saunders to his brother named what in Chapter 18?

5. Who meets regularly with Reuven and Danny at the library in Chapter 10?

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