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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One, Chapter Four.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Reuven go the day after the fair?
(a) Times Square.
(b) The Empire State Building.
(c) The beach.
(d) Coney Island.

2. How is Rachel's aunt helping Professor Gordon?
(a) She is a nurse and cares for him.
(b) She keeps track of his correspondence.
(c) She proofs his writing.
(d) She types his manuscripts.

3. What leads Reuven to read books by Professor Gordon?
(a) Reuven's father asks him to do so.
(b) Reuven's distaste for Rabbi Kalman.
(c) Reuven's search for meaning.
(d) Reuven's interest in Rachel Gordon.

4. What does the narrator decide to do?
(a) Join the army.
(b) Go to rabbinical school.
(c) Return to Eurpoe after it is rebuilt.
(d) Move to Israel.

5. Why has the population of the narrator's neighborhood grown rapidly by 1950?
(a) A high birth rate after the end of WWII.
(b) People are escaping persecution in other countries.
(c) The population has not increased much at all.
(d) The government offered free housing to people who would work in the factories there during the war.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what time does a flashback go?

2. Who says it is not a good day to visit?

3. For what purpose does Professor Gordon want Reuven to bring his friend Daniel Saunders to the Gordon home?

4. When does Michael begin treatment?

5. About what does Michael feel bad?

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