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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Reuven decide to teach Michael?
(a) How to read Hebrew.
(b) How to dance.
(c) How to whittle.
(d) How to sail.

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

4. How does Michael get a nosebleed?
(a) Playing soccer.
(b) Fighting.
(c) Standing up in a ride at the fair.
(d) Tripping and falling down.

5. About what does Michael display much knowledge?
(a) Gambling.
(b) Sailing.
(c) Horse racing.
(d) Astronomy.

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

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

8. What past experience of Rabbi Kalman's does Reuven mention?
(a) The death of the Rabbi's oldest daughter.
(b) Fleeing Germany New Zealand in the late 1930s.
(c) Being interned in a concentration camp.
(d) Fighting in the Jewish underground in Germany.

9. Who was Nota Finkel?
(a) He was excommuicated in the 1800s for heresy.
(b) He was a well-known Talmudist.
(c) He was a fanatical Zionist who changed his mind about Israel.
(d) He quashed a secularist revolt.

10. What type of an emergency has Danny had in this chapter that tires him?
(a) An emergency with a schizophrenic boy.
(b) The hospital where Daniel works catches fire.
(c) His father dies.
(d) His house catches fire.

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

12. What is one adjective that describes Kalman?
(a) Despondent.
(b) Kindly.
(c) Harsh.
(d) Optimistic.

13. Who does Michael see briefly?
(a) His grandparents who are visiting from Israel.
(b) Mrs. Gordon.
(c) His mother.
(d) Danny.

14. Why are Rachel and Reuven nervous about what Michael is doing?
(a) They are afraid Michael might rile up the neighborhood gangs.
(b) Michael is taunting the boy who gave him a nosebleed.
(c) He is in danger of falling again.
(d) He might lose a lot of money.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Rachel Gorden?

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

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

4. What is the name of the narrator in the Introduction?

5. Why are the Gordons angry with Rachel?

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