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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was Danny taught about suffering by his father?
(a) Danny's father only spoke to him when studying the Talmud.
(b) Danny's father makes him beg at Coney Island on Saturdays.
(c) Danny's father takes him to post-WWII Germany.
(d) Danny's father shows him pictures of bombed cities.

2. How does Michael get a nosebleed?
(a) Fighting.
(b) Tripping and falling down.
(c) Playing soccer.
(d) Standing up in a ride at the fair.

3. Why are Rachel and Reuven nervous about what Michael is doing?
(a) He is in danger of falling again.
(b) He might lose a lot of money.
(c) Michael is taunting the boy who gave him a nosebleed.
(d) They are afraid Michael might rile up the neighborhood gangs.

4. When does Reuven return to seminary?
(a) He has never been in seminary.
(b) He is going to sit out one semester and then go back.
(c) The Friday after Michael is taken to the treatment center.
(d) He decides not to return.

5. What type of an emergency has Danny had in this chapter that tires him?
(a) His house catches fire.
(b) An emergency with a schizophrenic boy.
(c) His father dies.
(d) The hospital where Daniel works catches fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom is Reuven dissatisfied in the flashback?

2. What kind of game do Reuven, Rachel and Michael go to?

3. How does Reuven describe Professor Gordon?

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

5. What happens to Michael on the drive home?

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