The Promise Test | Final Test - Easy

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The Promise Test | Final Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 135 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many typographical errors does Reuven's father find in his new book?
(a) 0.
(b) 22.
(c) Numerous.
(d) 1.

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

3. Who asks Danny to visit?
(a) Rav Kalman.
(b) Professor Mink.
(c) David Malter.
(d) Abraham Gordon.

4. What does Danny tell Reuven about Kalman?
(a) Kalman has written a review of David Malter's book.
(b) Kalman has said disturbing things about Reuven.
(c) Kalman has become engaged.
(d) Kalman is speaking next week at the theological seminar.

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

6. How do David Malter and Rav Kalman differ academically?
(a) They use different interpretive methods.
(b) They base their research on the same texts but different editions.
(c) One takes an academic approach and one takes a literal approach.
(d) They base their research on different texts.

7. What does Reuven continue to do with Rav Kalman?
(a) Try to get Rachel Gordon to date him.
(b) Explain David Malter's book.
(c) Argue with Rav Kalman about the existence of God.
(d) Read obscure textual commentaries.

8. What does Kalman claim unravels and destroys the Talmud's authority?
(a) The Jews having had so much previous Talmudic work destroyed during WWII.
(b) No having a definitive authority since WWII.
(c) David Malter's claims that there are errors in the transcriptions of the Talmud.
(d) Any scholar's insistence on breaking from traditional methods of interpretation.

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

10. What does Rav Kalman ask Reuven?
(a) To leave seminary.
(b) To help Reuven's father feel better.
(c) To teach a class on heterodoxy.
(d) To talk to Kalman about the tension between the two.

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

12. What film do Danny and Reuven and their dates go to see?
(a) Mutiny on the Bounty.
(b) Pride and Prejudice.
(c) Death of a Salesman.
(d) King Kong.

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

14. What does Kalman say Reuven has to do before Kalman will offer his scholarly approval of Reuven?
(a) Write an interpretation using strictly orthodox standards.
(b) Write an essay comparing orthodoxy and heterodoxy.
(c) Make a decision.
(d) Bring his father in to talk with Kalman.

15. Who is Abe Greenfield?
(a) A student in Reuven's class at seminary.
(b) The young man Rachel is dating.
(c) Danny's cousin.
(d) A friend with whom Reuven is sailing.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to David Malter, how do scribal errors influence his interpretation of texts?

2. With whom does Greenfield argue?

3. What does Reuven feel towards Kalman?

4. Why does Kalman ask Reuven to stay after class?

5. Why is Michael taken away?

(see the answer keys)

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