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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 is one thing that is established in the narrator's neighborhood as it becomes more populous?
(a) A neighborhood watch system.
(b) Two rival gangs.
(c) A bookie system.
(d) Educational institutions.

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

3. Who is David Malter?
(a) Reuven's father.
(b) Reuven's neighbor.
(c) Reuven's grandfather.
(d) Michael's uncle.

4. What does Michael see in himself?
(a) A passionate truth seeker.
(b) A cynic.
(c) Some of his father.
(d) His grandfather.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says it is not a good day to visit?

2. Who is Danny?

3. Where do the narrator and Rachel spend the summer together?

4. What does the narrator decide to do?

5. To what time does a flashback go?

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