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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the house number on the Blum's house in 1960?

2. In Chapter 9, who headed the Corbin Seminary?

3. In Chapter 7, where would Ruben buy store-bought yule logs?

4. How long did Alter cut cloth?

5. What dessert did Edith have in Chapter 8 from the Amish?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Alter say he would do if he was trying to go to college?

2. What did Edith add to the food she had prepared in Chapter 8, when the Netanyahus arrive?

3. What did Henya tell Judy when she complained about her nose?

4. What did Netanyahu say when he was asked what his greatest weakness was?

5. What did Edith make when Netanyahu was scheduled to arrive in Chapter 8?

6. In Chapter 7 when Judy was in the hospital, what did Ruben do about her homework?

7. What did Judy say her college essays were opportunities for?

8. How did Ruben think Judy planned her accident?

9. How is the trip described that Alter and Henya made to Corbindale for Thanksgiving?

10. What did Tzila tell the Blums about where her parents and she were from?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Netanyahu comments that his "exegeses tend toward the eisgetical" (166). Why does he make that statement? How does it relate to his style of teaching and how it undermines faith?

Essay Topic 2

Judy hates her nose and wants a reconstructive surgery. Does Judy deliberately manipulate circumstances so her nose is broken and she can get a reconstruction?

Essay Topic 3

Ruben noticed a difference in how history was taught in the public school and the Hebrew school he attended when he was a child. What was the difference between how history was taught in the schools Ruben attended as a boy? How did that dichotomy lead Ruben to the academic study of history?

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