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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. 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.

2. What past experience of Rabbi Kalman's does Reuven mention?
(a) The death of the Rabbi's oldest daughter.
(b) Fleeing Germany New Zealand in the late 1930s.
(c) Fighting in the Jewish underground in Germany.
(d) Being interned in a concentration camp.

3. Why can't Danny meet with Professor Gordon?
(a) He has an emergency.
(b) He is in Europe.
(c) He has to work.
(d) He is ill.

4. Who does Reuven arrange to meet?
(a) Professor Gordon.
(b) Rachel.
(c) Reuven's grandfather.
(d) Reuven's uncle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Michael get a nosebleed?

2. What does Michael say his nosebleeds are not a result of?

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

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

5. Why does Michael hate orthodox Jews?

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