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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 shows him pictures of bombed cities.
(c) Danny's father takes him to post-WWII Germany.
(d) Danny's father makes him beg at Coney Island on Saturdays.

2. What does the narrator decide to do?
(a) Move to Israel.
(b) Join the army.
(c) Return to Eurpoe after it is rebuilt.
(d) Go to rabbinical school.

3. Where is the setting at the opening of the Introduction?
(a) Newark.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) Long Island.
(d) Queens.

4. Who is Michael Gordon?
(a) Rachel's brother.
(b) Rachel's uncle.
(c) Rachel's father.
(d) Rachel's cousin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Michael hate orthodox Jews?

2. About whom does Rachel ask Reuven?

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

4. Who is Abraham Gordon?

5. How often does Reuven see Rachel between October and December?

(see the answer key)

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