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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Chaim Potok live when the Jews in Russia tried to obtain freedom?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Jerusalem.
(c) Moscow.
(d) New York.

2. Why was Solomon's education request rejected?
(a) Because his grades were too low.
(b) Because of the tuition cost.
(c) Because of the quota system.
(d) Because the school was too far.

3. What did Volodya ask Potok and his wife not to do until they were inside the apartment?
(a) Give gifts.
(b) Speak Hebrew.
(c) Talk.
(d) Laugh.

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

5. When were the Chinese Communists admitted in the Kuomintang?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1923.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Potok and his wife arrive in Moscow at the start of the Prologue?

2. Why didn't Masha want to become a surgeon?

3. When was Leonid Slepak born?

4. How old was Volodya when he first saw a picture of Stalin?

5. When did the parents of the author, Chaim Potok, see Russia as an enemy?

(see the answer key)

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