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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 proofs his writing.
(b) She keeps track of his correspondence.
(c) She types his manuscripts.
(d) She is a nurse and cares for him.

2. What does Kalman have Reuven read aloud?
(a) Parts of Kalman's newest publication.
(b) The writ of excommication of Professor Gordon.
(c) The laws of ex-communication.
(d) Texts by Gemora.

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

4. According to Reuven, what will happen to the Hasid if they do not change?
(a) They will be left at the wayside.
(b) They will stagnate.
(c) They will lose.
(d) They will grow stronger.

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

6. With whom does Kotzker Rebbe have disagreements?
(a) Many Hasidic sects.
(b) The reformed Jews.
(c) The Zionists.
(d) No one.

7. Why are the Gordons angry with Rachel?
(a) She let Michael gamble.
(b) She didn't bring Michael home after his first nosebleed.
(c) She lied to her father.
(d) She is with a non-Jewish date.

8. What does Reuven say about Rachel Gordon?
(a) That she is not educated enough for him to be interested in her.
(b) That there was nothing between him and Rachel.
(c) That she is part of an excommunicated family and therefore someone he could not marry.
(d) That she is too intellectual for him to consider her as a wife.

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

10. About what does Michael feel bad?
(a) How he acted the night before.
(b) That he is setting a poor example for his brother.
(c) That his father will confront the old man.
(d) That his mother is disappointed in him.

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

12. According to rumors, what is one thing Kalman goes through during WWII?
(a) Seeing his children taken for adoption by German families.
(b) Being forced to work in mines in Poland.
(c) Fleeing from Germany to Australia.
(d) Seeing his family shot.

13. What book does Reuven read by Kalman on the subway?
(a) A book on the reasons for excommunication of a member of the Jewish community.
(b) A book on interpreting techniques.
(c) A book on ethics.
(d) A book about some very obscure passages in the Talmud.

14. What does Michael burn?
(a) A copy of the Tanach.
(b) A copy of Mein Kampf.
(c) A copy of the excommunication writ against his father.
(d) The trash on the floor.

15. With whom is Reuven dissatisfied in the flashback?
(a) Reuven's oldest brother.
(b) Professor Gordon.
(c) Reuven's father.
(d) Rabbi Rav Kalman

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Professor Gordon look over at the Zechariah Frankel library?

2. How many therapists has Michael been to over the past 14 months?

3. About what is the narrator's father writing a book?

4. Who does Michael see briefly?

5. Who asks Reuven to talk with Michael?

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