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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Michael go when Reuven goes in the house?
(a) To see Reb Kalman.
(b) To a pagoda.
(c) To the beach.
(d) Back to the treatment center.

2. What surprises Reuven's father?
(a) Learning of Danny and Rachel's relationship.
(b) That Kalman apologized to a student.
(c) That Reuven is quitting seminary.
(d) That Reuven is dating Rachel seriously.

3. What does Reuven feel towards Kalman?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Bitterness.
(c) Respect.
(d) Sadness.

4. What is Abe Greenfield's area of expertise?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Physics.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Law.

5. What is one consequence of the orthodox reaction to Rav Kalman's article?
(a) David Malter may lose his job.
(b) More scholars are leaving orthodoxy.
(c) More scholars are moving towards orthodoxy.
(d) The orthodox contingent at David's workplace do not know if they should approve of his book being published.

6. What does Reuven notice about his father?
(a) He seems more optimistic.
(b) He seems depressed and sick.
(c) Nothing in particular.
(d) He is moving on to other projects.

7. Who has been upset by Rav Kalman's article on David Malter's book?
(a) Only the most extremist at Kalman's school.
(b) The orthodox immigrant faculty where David Malter works.
(c) No one; all know it is just the usualy academic give and take.
(d) Most of the reformists.

8. What does Kalman say to Reuven in class?
(a) He acts as though nothing is different.
(b) Nothing.
(c) He apologizes for his article about Reuven's father's book.
(d) Only what is relevant to the daily lesson.

9. What does Michael say to a nurse?
(a) He is never going to talk to his father again.
(b) He knows what he must do.
(c) He is leaving the United States.
(d) He is abandoning Judaism.

10. Who does Professor Gordon want as his student?
(a) No one; he wants to quit teaching.
(b) Reuven.
(c) Rachel.
(d) Danny.

11. What languages are difficult for Kalman in reading David Malter's book?
(a) Greek and German.
(b) English and Greek.
(c) Greek and Latin.
(d) English and Latin.

12. Who does Michael talk about?
(a) Rachel.
(b) Professor Gordon.
(c) Danny.
(d) Reuven.

13. What do the teachers at Professor Gordon's school think about David Malter's book?
(a) They have serious reservations.
(b) They love it.
(c) They think it is poorly written.
(d) They think it is heretical.

14. Out of what does David think Kalman is acting?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Bitterness at the deaths of his teacher and friends.
(c) Love for the Torah.
(d) Anger.

15. Where is Reuven summoned at the end of the chapter?
(a) To meet with two other Yeshivas who have job offers.
(b) To visit the foremost Rabbi alive at the time.
(c) To see Michael.
(d) To visit a Yeshiva in Israel as a guest lecturer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Reuven go after Kalman's class?

2. What do Danny and Michael discuss at the opening to Chapter 12?

3. Who does Kalman say was his teacher of the Torah?

4. Who asks Danny to visit?

5. How does Reuven's response to one exam question shock the examiners?

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