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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is one image Michael sees in the clouds?
(a) The old man from the fair the night before.
(b) Zeus.
(c) His dead grandfather.
(d) Mount Olympus.

4. Where do the narrator and Rachel spend the summer together?
(a) In Nova Scotia.
(b) On a ranch in the Rockies.
(c) In New Brunswick.
(d) In Peekskill.

5. What is one topic of conversation between Reuven and Michael the next day after the fair?
(a) The defeat of Germany.
(b) Michael's nosebleeds.
(c) Rachel's family.
(d) Rachel's good points.

6. What does Michael do that he is cheated out of?
(a) He knocks the milk bottoms over.
(b) He throws three baseballs in the holes.
(c) Nothing.
(d) He wins a trophy.

7. Who is the Jewish, elderly man who comes up to Reuven, Rachel and Michael?
(a) A visiting Rabbi from Israel.
(b) The local Rabbi.
(c) Michael's grandfather.
(d) The booth attendant's father.

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

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

10. What is one thing that is established in the narrator's neighborhood as it becomes more populous?
(a) Two rival gangs.
(b) A bookie system.
(c) A neighborhood watch system.
(d) Educational institutions.

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

12. What leads Reuven to read books by Professor Gordon?
(a) Reuven's interest in Rachel Gordon.
(b) Reuven's father asks him to do so.
(c) Reuven's distaste for Rabbi Kalman.
(d) Reuven's search for meaning.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Michael see in himself?

2. What do Michael and Reuven talk about as far as the clouds go?

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

4. What is one adjective that describes Kalman?

5. What does the narrator decide to do?

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