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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. Reuven takes part in the Torah service by doing what in Chapter 7?
(a) Lighting the candles.
(b) Reciting the blessing over the Torah.
(c) Dancing with the Rabbi.
(d) Kneeling for the messiah.

2. Who from Reuven’s baseball team visits him at the hospital in Chapter 3?
(a) Mr. Galanter.
(b) Mr. Thomas.
(c) Mr. Albertson.
(d) Mr. Michaels.

3. Where does Reuven Malter’s father spend much of his time at home in Chapter 5?
(a) The kitchen.
(b) The garage.
(c) The basement.
(d) His study.

4. What is the name of the nurse who is in charge of Reuven Malter in the hospital in Chapter 2?
(a) Mrs. Jones.
(b) Mrs. Worthington.
(c) Mrs. Carpenter.
(d) Mrs. Rogers.

5. In Chapter 4, Reuven's father tells him that "[t]he Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself. One is to acquire” what?
(a) “A friend.”
(b) “Wealth.”
(c) “A teacher.”
(d) “A wife.”

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Danny Saunders’ father brought his congregation to the United States and settled in what neighborhood of Brooklyn?

3. Reuven calls Billy’s home to see how his surgery went in Chapter 9. What does Reuven learn?

4. What is the seventh day of the Jewish week and the Jewish day of rest?

5. What led to Reuven Malter’s injury in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. Whose baseball teams play against one another in Chapter 1? How are these teams attired and where do they play?

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

3. What does Reuven discover about Billy Merritt in Chapter 9?

4. How does the challenging baseball team appear to Reuven’s teammates in Chapter 1?

5. What does Reuven’s father say he understands about Danny and Reuven’s place in Danny’s life in Chapter 6?

6. How does Reuven become injured during the game in Chapter 1? How does the game end?

7. What is demonstrated by Danny’s interests in psychoanalysis in the novel?

8. Where is Reuven taken for his injury in Chapter 2? How does Reuven feel?

9. How is Danny Saunders described in Chapter 1? What is Danny’s apparel like? Where does he live?

10. What changes Reb Saunders’ views of Reuven in Chapter 7? How is this indicated?

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