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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Reb Saunders ask Reuven while they are alone waiting for tea in Chapter 8?
(a) If Danny has lied to him.
(b) If Danny has a girlfriend.
(c) How Danny acts at school.
(d) What books Danny is reading.

2. What kind of school does Reuven Malter attend in Chapter 1?
(a) A Kosher.
(b) A Pilpul.
(c) A Smicha.
(d) A Yeshiva.

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

4. What is the seventh day of the Jewish week and the Jewish day of rest?
(a) Rishon.
(b) Shabbat.
(c) Shlishi.
(d) Reviʻi.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who reveals that he meets with Danny Saunders in the library in Chapter 4?

2. Reuven’s reaction to the spider web on his porch in Chapter 9 demonstrates what characteristic in Reuven?

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

4. 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?

5. In what language are lessons taught at Reuven Malter’s school in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the baseball game begin in Chapter 1? Who takes the lead?

2. What is foreshadowed by David Malter’s comments about friendship in Chapter 4?

3. What is indicated by Reuven’s thoughts in the beginning of Chapter 8?

4. Why does Reb Saunders call Reuven’s father in Chapter 2? How does Reuven respond?

5. How does Reuven feel like his life has changed when he returns home from the hospital in Chapter 5? Why?

6. What is significant about Danny’s and Reuven’s aspirations within their synagogues in Chapter 3?

7. How is Reuven’s home described when he returns from the hospital in Chapter 5? Who greets them when they arrive home?

8. What does Reuven consider about his first foray into the Hasidic world in Chapter 7?

9. What historical figure does David Malter compare Danny Saunders to in Chapter 6? How is this individual’s influence on Judaism described?

10. How does Reuven respond to the information he learns about Billy in Chapter 9? What symbolic imagery is described at the end of this chapter?

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