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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what does Michael display much knowledge?
(a) Sailing.
(b) Astronomy.
(c) Horse racing.
(d) Gambling.

2. What does Professor Gordon look over at the Zechariah Frankel library?
(a) He does not go to the library because they are too restrictive.
(b) Negative reviews of his works.
(c) A new theory about the writing of the Talmud.
(d) Some books on mental illness.

3. Who has shut himself up for twenty years?
(a) Reuven's great-grandmother.
(b) Reuven's uncle.
(c) The man who lives on Reuven's street.
(d) Kotzker Rebbe.

4. To whom does the conversation between Danny and Reuven turn after talking about Rachel?
(a) Michael.
(b) Professor Gordon.
(c) Kalman Rebbe.
(d) Reuven's father.

5. What classes does Reuven study?
(a) Psychology.
(b) History.
(c) Linguistics.
(d) Religion and philosophy.

6. 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) He decides not to return.
(d) The Friday after Michael is taken to the treatment center.

7. To what religion does the narrator's neighborhood belong?
(a) Muslim.
(b) Jewish.
(c) Buddhism.
(d) Christian.

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

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

10. Who does Reuven arrange to meet?
(a) Rachel.
(b) Reuven's grandfather.
(c) Professor Gordon.
(d) Reuven's uncle.

11. How is Michael doing?
(a) As well as can be expected.
(b) Reuven does not know.
(c) He has had a major breakdown.
(d) He is fine and has been released from treatment.

12. 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.

13. Who is Abraham Gordon?
(a) A man who escaped from Ravensbrook.
(b) The temple cantor.
(c) Rachel Gorden's father.
(d) A professor who is hated by the Jewish orthodoxy.

14. How many therapists has Michael been to over the past 14 months?
(a) 0.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

15. About what is the narrator's father writing a book?
(a) The crusades.
(b) Peaceful negotiations.
(c) The Talmud.
(d) Zionism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. About whom does Rachel ask Reuven?

3. How does Reuven describe Professor Gordon?

4. What sects have inhabited the narrator's neighborhood?

5. According to Reuven, with whom are the Hasid at war?

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