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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. How was Danny taught about suffering by his father?
(a) Danny's father only spoke to him when studying the Talmud.
(b) Danny's father makes him beg at Coney Island on Saturdays.
(c) Danny's father takes him to post-WWII Germany.
(d) Danny's father shows him pictures of bombed cities.

2. What sects have inhabited the narrator's neighborhood?
(a) Muslim.
(b) Sufi.
(c) Arab.
(d) Hasidic.

3. Where do the narrator and Rachel spend the summer together?
(a) In New Brunswick.
(b) In Peekskill.
(c) In Nova Scotia.
(d) On a ranch in the Rockies.

4. What does Danny say about Michael?
(a) There is nothing wrong with him.
(b) He is only mildly neurotic.
(c) He is just suffering from adolescent hormones.
(d) He is quite mentally ill.

5. What happens to Michael while he is arguing?
(a) He hits the elderly man.
(b) He pulls out a gun and shoots the booth attendant.
(c) He breaks down.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Michael begin treatment?

2. What is the day after the sailing trip?

3. What is one major point of Gordon's "theology"?

4. What does Reuven decide to teach Michael?

5. What is one image Michael sees in the clouds?

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