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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’s father tells Danny Saunders that understanding of the silence can only be explained to Danny by whom in Chapter 17?
(a) Reb Saunders.
(b) Reuven Malter.
(c) Levi Saunders.
(d) Dr. Grossman.

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

3. What is a central theme in the novel and one that is illustrated in Chapter 16?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Adultery.
(d) Revenge.

4. Reuven is called on the first week of which month to discuss texts from the Talmud in his new Talmud class in Chapter 14?
(a) August.
(b) February.
(c) January.
(d) October.

5. What word does Reuven research the meaning of to help him understand the trouble Danny has with experimental psychology in Chapter 13?
(a) “Embryo.”
(b) “Unconscious.”
(c) “Psychic.”
(d) “Cadaver.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the virtue of empathy for the suffering of others?

2. In Chapter 18, Reb Saunders says, "A man is born into this world with only a tiny spark of goodness in him. The spark is” what?

3. While Danny reads psychological texts in Chapter 10, Reuven concentrates on what kind of articles?

4. Danny Saunders realizes that his father will discover his educational plans by what means in Chapter 17?

5. What does Reuven ask Danny when he visits him after starting his studies in the end of Chapter 18?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Reb Saunders treat Reuven in Chapter 16? How does Reuven feel about this?

2. What does Reuven’s father remark about Reb Saunders’ methods of raising his son in Chapter 16?

3. What is the setting and time period of Chapter 15? How does Danny reemerge in Reuven’s life?

4. How do Reuven and Danny spend their first month of summer in Chapter 10?

5. What does Reuven’s father realize about Reb Saunders’ silence with Danny in Chapter 17?

6. How does the synagogue respond when Reb Saunders announces Danny’s plans for his education in Chapter 18?

7. What is the central theme of Chapter 18? How does this theme relate to silence?

8. What does Reuven remark about the relationship between Reb Saunders and Danny in Chapter 12?

9. What does Reb Saunders conclude about compassion in Chapter 18?

10. What gesture does Danny make to intimate his sympathy for Reuven in Chapter 14?

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