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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. Who is Giordano Bruno?
(a) A man burned at the stake for preaching that the stars were suns.
(b) The neighborhood baker.
(c) A famous doctor from Sicily.
(d) A famous painter from Italy.

2. What do Michael and Reuven talk about as far as the clouds go?
(a) If the clouds are solid in another dimension.
(b) Whether they portend a storm.
(c) If they can support angels.
(d) What the shapes look like.

3. What does Michael say he cannot get out of his head?
(a) Eternity.
(b) God.
(c) Rachel.
(d) The booth attendant.

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

5. What is Rachel urging Michael to do?
(a) Go home to rest.
(b) Buy her a candied apple.
(c) Stop rolling the dice.
(d) See a doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Michael while he is arguing?

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

3. What does the narrator decide to do?

4. Why are Rachel and Reuven nervous about what Michael is doing?

5. What is one thing that is established in the narrator's neighborhood as it becomes more populous?

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