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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Rachel's aunt helping Professor Gordon?
(a) She types his manuscripts.
(b) She is a nurse and cares for him.
(c) She proofs his writing.
(d) She keeps track of his correspondence.

2. According to Reuven, with whom are the Hasid at war?
(a) Secularism.
(b) Reformists.
(c) No one.
(d) Creationists.

3. 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.

4. How does Reuven describe Professor Gordon?
(a) A kind, gentle soul.
(b) A very liberal Jewish Rabbi.
(c) A fanatical, orthodox Rabbi.
(d) A fanatical Zionist.

5. 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) Educational institutions.
(d) A bookie system.

6. What problem has Professor Gordon had?
(a) A bout with polio.
(b) A heart attack.
(c) A case of flu.
(d) A problem with shingles.

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

8. About whom does Michael fantasize?
(a) Rachel.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Michael's next-door neighbor.
(d) Reuven.

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

10. Who has been seeing Rachel more and more?
(a) Reuven.
(b) Danny.
(c) Michael.
(d) An unnamed man from Harvard.

11. Why is Professor Gordon exhausted at the opening to Chapter 4?
(a) Because he has had the flu.
(b) From a speaking engagment in San Francisco.
(c) From working so hard on a new book.
(d) From his worldwide travels.

12. What does Reuven hear about Michael?
(a) That his case appears hopeless.
(b) That Michael is doing quite well.
(c) That Michael is in a permanent facility for the mentally ill.
(d) Very little.

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

14. Who is the Jewish, elderly man who comes up to Reuven, Rachel and Michael?
(a) The booth attendant's father.
(b) Michael's grandfather.
(c) The local Rabbi.
(d) A visiting Rabbi from Israel.

15. About whom does Rachel ask Reuven?
(a) Danny.
(b) Kotzker Rebbe.
(c) Reuven's sister.
(d) Reuven's father.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who has shut himself up for twenty years?

3. What does Kalman ask Reuven one day after class?

4. Who does Michael see briefly?

5. Who does Reuven call the day after he and Michael go sailing?

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