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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Volodya's family and the Potoks celebrate?
(a) Shabbat.
(b) Yom Kippur.
(c) Passover.
(d) A Bar Mitzvah.

2. When did Potok and his wife arrive in Moscow at the start of the Prologue?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1981.

3. When did the parents of the author, Chaim Potok, see Russia as an enemy?
(a) After the end of WWII.
(b) After 1964.
(c) In the 1930s and after the end of WWII.
(d) Before 1920.

4. What alternative did Solomon's mother give him when he was 13?
(a) Become a dentist or leave the house.
(b) Become a soldier or leave the house.
(c) Become a rabbi or leave the house.
(d) Become a train driver or leave the house.

5. What did Solomon Slepak's father hope for his son to do?
(a) Become a dentist.
(b) Become a physician.
(c) Become a soldier.
(d) Become a rabbi.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Jews who survived in Russia ask for more freedom?

2. Where did Chaim Potok live when the Jews in Russia tried to obtain freedom?

3. How many questions did Potok try to answer in his book about the Slepak family?

4. What was Volodya's family excited to learn?

5. When was Solomon sent to Japan?

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