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

3. What does Kalman ask of Reuven?
(a) To ask Reuven's father if he approves of the association.
(b) To stop dating Rachel Gordon.
(c) To respect the excommunication writ.
(d) To read up on why Professor Gordon is ex-communicated.

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

5. Who is Reuven?
(a) The mayor of Peekskill.
(b) A shoemaker.
(c) A baker in the neighborhood.
(d) The narrator.

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

7. How often does Reuven see Rachel between October and December?
(a) Seldom.
(b) Several days a week.
(c) Almost daily.
(d) Never.

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

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

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

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

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

13. What is one thing Danny and Reuven discuss?
(a) Sailing.
(b) Zionism.
(c) War reparations from Germany.
(d) The books on Danny's book shelves.

14. Who is Rachel Gorden?
(a) The narrator's grandmama.
(b) The neighborhood rabbi's daughter.
(c) A traveling circus member.
(d) A woman the narrator meets at a Spring party.

15. Who does Reuven call the day after he and Michael go sailing?
(a) Michael.
(b) Professor Gordon.
(c) Reuven's grandfather.
(d) Rachel.