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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Michael between the time of his breaking down at the fair and then arriving home?
(a) He is arrested for disrespect to a police officer.
(b) Nothing.
(c) He blacks out.
(d) He gets a ticket.

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

3. What does Michael say his nosebleeds are not a result of?
(a) Thin blood.
(b) Exertion.
(c) Trauma.
(d) Anxiety.

4. What is the day after the sailing trip?
(a) Shabbat.
(b) No special day.
(c) Hanukkah.
(d) Yom Kippur.

5. What is one possible explanation for Michael's nosebleeds?
(a) Insomnia.
(b) Being underweight.
(c) Being overweight.
(d) Allergies.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Michael feel bad?

2. Where does Reuven go the day after the fair?

3. Why has the population of the narrator's neighborhood grown rapidly by 1950?

4. Who is Michael Gordon?

5. What is the name of the narrator in the Introduction?

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