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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Reuven feel towards Kalman?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Respect.
(c) Bitterness.
(d) Hatred.
2. What does Kalman do in protest about the planned changes at his school?
(a) Threatens suicide.
(b) Moves to Israel.
(c) Stops coming to class.
(d) Leaves the United States for his homeland.
3. What enrages Michael and causes him to organize a group of boys to try to get out of the treatment center?
(a) Learning that Professor Gordon has conceded many issues to the orthodoxy.
(b) Michael learning that Danny and Rachel are involved romantically.
(c) Danny telling Michael he is to be institutionalized.
(d) Professor Gordon telling Michael he will be disinherited.
4. What do the teachers at Professor Gordon's school think about David Malter's book?
(a) They have serious reservations.
(b) They think it is poorly written.
(c) They think it is heretical.
(d) They love it.
5. How many typographical errors does Reuven's father find in his new book?
(a) 1.
(b) 22.
(c) 0.
(d) Numerous.
6. What concerns Rachel about the idea of marrying Danny?
(a) That Reuven would be hurt.
(b) That he would want to bring their children up in the same fashion in which he was raised.
(c) That her uncle would say no.
(d) That Michael would be hurt.
7. Why does Michael think his father exhausts himself?
(a) To prove God exists.
(b) To save religion.
(c) To feel good about his life.
(d) To find a cure for Michael.
8. Who does Kalman say was his teacher of the Torah?
(a) His father.
(b) He is self taught.
(c) He does not mention from where he learns the Torah.
(d) One of the greatest teachers of the Torah in the world.
9. What does Michael talk about in the field of astronomy?
(a) The North Star.
(b) The new galaxies born every minute.
(c) The universe as god's playground.
(d) Red giants and white dwarfs.
10. Where does Reuven go after Kalman's class?
(a) To see Rachel.
(b) To sail.
(c) To talk to the Rabbi of his synogogue.
(d) To see Michael.
11. What does Rav Kalman ask Reuven?
(a) To teach a class on heterodoxy.
(b) To help Reuven's father feel better.
(c) To talk to Kalman about the tension between the two.
(d) To leave seminary.
12. What is going on with Michael during this time?
(a) He is sitting silent and motionless on his mattress.
(b) He is in a coma.
(c) He is talking about his feelings finally.
(d) He has killed himself.
13. What does Reuven resist that Michael is saying?
(a) That Michael should be allowed to come stay with Reuven.
(b) That God is not interested in Reb Kalman.
(c) That there is no god.
(d) That Kalman is vicious and evil.
14. What does Reuven notice about his father?
(a) He is moving on to other projects.
(b) He seems more optimistic.
(c) He seems depressed and sick.
(d) Nothing in particular.
15. For what is Reuven preparing?
(a) Marriage.
(b) To travel to a European Yeshiva.
(c) His smicha examination.
(d) To visit Michael.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who asks Danny to visit?
2. What does Danny give Michael?
3. Out of what class does Greenfield stalk?
4. Who has been upset by Rav Kalman's article on David Malter's book?
5. What does Michael perceive about many things?
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