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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Rachel urging Michael to do?
(a) Go home to rest.
(b) Stop rolling the dice.
(c) Buy her a candied apple.
(d) See a doctor.

2. What is one major point of Gordon's "theology"?
(a) All religions worship the same god.
(b) Theology is not necessary in the modern world.
(c) Jews can fail to believe but remain observant.
(d) God is a product of the sum of all souls.

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

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

5. Whose class is Reuven in at the opening of Chapter 6?
(a) Danny.
(b) Rav Kalman.
(c) Professor Gordon.
(d) His father's.

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

7. Who asks Reuven to talk with Michael?
(a) Professor Gordon.
(b) Reuven's father.
(c) Rachel Gordon.
(d) Danny.

8. What does Reuven's father finish?
(a) His manuscript.
(b) A textbook for his students about zoology.
(c) A series of lectures at local Jewish Zionist chapters.
(d) Building a prayer room onto the house.

9. What do Michael and Reuven talk about as far as the clouds go?
(a) Whether they portend a storm.
(b) What the shapes look like.
(c) If the clouds are solid in another dimension.
(d) If they can support angels.

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

11. About what does Reuven say he has no right to be angry?
(a) The reception of his father's book.
(b) Kalman's actions.
(c) Who Rachel is becoming serious with romantically.
(d) Reuven does not talk about being angry.

12. When does Michael begin treatment?
(a) The second week in October.
(b) He agrees to start after the new year.
(c) He refuses treatment.
(d) He starts the same day that Michael returns to classes.

13. Who calls Reuven and is acting odd?
(a) Rachel.
(b) Michael.
(c) Danny.
(d) Professor Gordon.

14. What is one possible explanation for Michael's nosebleeds?
(a) Being underweight.
(b) Insomnia.
(c) Allergies.
(d) Being overweight.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Danny taught about suffering by his father?

2. What does Kalman have Reuven read aloud?

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

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

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

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