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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the narrator in the Introduction?
(a) Chaim.
(b) He is not yet named.
(c) Jonathon.
(d) Esther.

2. What kind of game do Reuven, Rachel and Michael go to?
(a) A dice game.
(b) A bottle knock down.
(c) Ball throwing.
(d) Ring toss.

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

4. Who is Abraham Gordon?
(a) A professor who is hated by the Jewish orthodoxy.
(b) The temple cantor.
(c) Rachel Gorden's father.
(d) A man who escaped from Ravensbrook.

5. Who is Reuven?
(a) The narrator.
(b) A baker in the neighborhood.
(c) A shoemaker.
(d) The mayor of Peekskill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Michael say he cannot get out of his head?

2. What is one possible explanation for Michael's nosebleeds?

3. What happens to Michael on the drive home?

4. Who is the Jewish, elderly man who comes up to Reuven, Rachel and Michael?

5. How does Michael get a nosebleed?

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