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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What happens to Michael between the time of his breaking down at the fair and then arriving home?
(a) He is arrested for disrespect to a police officer.
(b) He blacks out.
(c) He gets a ticket.
(d) Nothing.

4. Why has the population of the narrator's neighborhood grown rapidly by 1950?
(a) People are escaping persecution in other countries.
(b) A high birth rate after the end of WWII.
(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.

5. Who is Michael Gordon?
(a) Rachel's cousin.
(b) Rachel's father.
(c) Rachel's uncle.
(d) Rachel's brother.

6. What does Danny say about Michael?
(a) There is nothing wrong with him.
(b) He is quite mentally ill.
(c) He is just suffering from adolescent hormones.
(d) He is only mildly neurotic.

7. Of what does Kalman remind Reuven?
(a) That Professor Gordon is excommunicated.
(b) That Professor Gordon is suspected of destroying valuable documents.
(c) That Reuven's father would not approve of Reuven's behavior.
(d) That Reuven is going to be a Hasidic Rabbi.

8. Who has gotten in fist fights with others?
(a) Michael.
(b) Rachel's brother.
(c) Danny's youngest brother.
(d) Reuven's youngest brother.

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

10. Where does Reuven encounter Professor Gordon?
(a) The library.
(b) At Ellis Island.
(c) The zoo.
(d) At the hospital while visiting Michael.

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

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

13. How was Danny taught about suffering by his father?
(a) Danny's father shows him pictures of bombed cities.
(b) Danny's father only spoke to him when studying the Talmud.
(c) Danny's father makes him beg at Coney Island on Saturdays.
(d) Danny's father takes him to post-WWII Germany.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one image Michael sees in the clouds?

2. How is Michael doing?

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

4. With whom does Kotzker Rebbe have disagreements?

5. What problem has Professor Gordon had?

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