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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does the narrator decide to do?
(a) Join the army.
(b) Return to Eurpoe after it is rebuilt.
(c) Move to Israel.
(d) Go to rabbinical school.

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

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

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

9. Why is Professor Gordon exhausted at the opening to Chapter 4?
(a) Because he has had the flu.
(b) From his worldwide travels.
(c) From working so hard on a new book.
(d) From a speaking engagment in San Francisco.

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

11. About whom does Michael fantasize?
(a) Rachel.
(b) Reuven.
(c) Michael's next-door neighbor.
(d) Sarah.

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

13. What does Kalman ask Reuven one day after class?
(a) If Reuven's father could give Kalman a call.
(b) If Reuven wants to be his research assistant.
(c) If Reuven is dating Rachel Gordon.
(d) If Rueven was associating with Professor Gorden at Frankel library.

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

15. What is the day after the sailing trip?
(a) Shabbat.
(b) Yom Kippur.
(c) No special day.
(d) Hanukkah.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the setting at the opening of the Introduction?

2. Where does Reuven encounter Professor Gordon?

3. Why does Michael hate orthodox Jews?

4. Who does Reuven arrange to meet?

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

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