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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one image Michael sees in the clouds?
(a) Mount Olympus.
(b) His dead grandfather.
(c) The old man from the fair the night before.
(d) Zeus.

2. Who does Reuven call the day after he and Michael go sailing?
(a) Professor Gordon.
(b) Reuven's grandfather.
(c) Rachel.
(d) Michael.

3. Why does Michael hate orthodox Jews?
(a) He does not hate them; he is fascinated with them.
(b) Because they are fanatics and hypocrites.
(c) Because the girl he likes father is one and he will not allow them to see each other.
(d) Because they make other Jews look unholy.

4. What sects have inhabited the narrator's neighborhood?
(a) Sufi.
(b) Hasidic.
(c) Arab.
(d) Muslim.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Professor Gordon ask Reuben?

2. What happens to Michael between the time of his breaking down at the fair and then arriving home?

3. Where is the setting at the opening of the Introduction?

4. Why is Professor Gordon exhausted at the opening to Chapter 4?

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

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