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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 refers to the virtue of empathy for the suffering of others?
(a) Apathy.
(b) Misogyny.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Tolerance.

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

3. What declines considerably at Reuven’s college after the memorial for a fallen graduate in Chapter 15?
(a) Prayer attendance.
(b) Student moral.
(c) Average GPA.
(d) The Anti-Zionist movement.

4. Danny Saunders claims to have learned how do live with what in Chapter 16?
(a) Silence.
(b) Guilt.
(c) Pain.
(d) Knowledge.

5. What organization does Reb Saunders originate and develop in Chapter 14?
(a) The League for the State of Israel.
(b) The Yiddish Society of Rabbis.
(c) The Society for Enlightened Women.
(d) The League for a Religious Eretz Yisroel.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 18, Reuven and Danny complete their undergraduate college degrees, both earning what honors?

2. What does Danny say to explain his presence to Reuven in Chapter 16?

3. How old was Danny Saunders when he was able to read a story about a poor Jew and his struggles, according to Reb Saunders in Chapter 18?

4. 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?

5. Danny is frustrated by reading and translating his psychological texts until he finds what in Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Danny and Reuven’s fathers disagree regarding the establishment of a Jewish state?

2. How does David Malter defend the actions of Reb Saunders in Chapter 13?

3. How is Reuven’s time spent with his father in Chapter 10? Why does Mr. Malter travel to Manhattan?

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

5. What does Danny discuss in depth with Professor Appleman in Chapter 13?

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

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

8. How is the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt described in Chapter 11?

9. What does Reuven’s father compare Danny Saunders to in Chapter 17?

10. What causes the animosity between Danny and Reuven in Chapter 13?

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