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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what does Reuven say he has no right to be angry?
(a) Who Rachel is becoming serious with romantically.
(b) Kalman's actions.
(c) The reception of his father's book.
(d) Reuven does not talk about being angry.

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

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

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

5. According to Reuven, with whom are the Hasid at war?
(a) Creationists.
(b) Secularism.
(c) No one.
(d) Reformists.

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

7. What does Reuven's father finish?
(a) A series of lectures at local Jewish Zionist chapters.
(b) Building a prayer room onto the house.
(c) A textbook for his students about zoology.
(d) His manuscript.

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

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

10. What is one major point of Gordon's "theology"?
(a) Theology is not necessary in the modern world.
(b) Jews can fail to believe but remain observant.
(c) God is a product of the sum of all souls.
(d) All religions worship the same god.

11. To what religion does the narrator's neighborhood belong?
(a) Muslim.
(b) Jewish.
(c) Christian.
(d) Buddhism.

12. When does Reuven return to seminary?
(a) The Friday after Michael is taken to the treatment center.
(b) He decides not to return.
(c) He has never been in seminary.
(d) He is going to sit out one semester and then go back.

13. What happens to Michael while he is arguing?
(a) Nothing.
(b) He breaks down.
(c) He pulls out a gun and shoots the booth attendant.
(d) He hits the elderly man.

14. Who asks Reuven to talk with Michael?
(a) Professor Gordon.
(b) Rachel Gordon.
(c) Reuven's father.
(d) Danny.

15. What classes does Reuven study?
(a) History.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Linguistics.
(d) Religion and philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How often does Reuven see Rachel between October and December?

3. What is one thing that is established in the narrator's neighborhood as it becomes more populous?

4. What does Michael do that he is cheated out of?

5. Who was Nota Finkel?

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