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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Michael's treatment progressing?
(a) It is going as planned.
(b) It is not productive as yet.
(c) It has cured Michael and he is going home.
(d) It has been terminated.

2. How does Reuven's father encourage Reuven to act towards Kalman?
(a) Assertive.
(b) He encourages Reuven not to meet with Kalman.
(c) Respectful.
(d) Agreeable.

3. 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) David Malter's claims that there are errors in the transcriptions of the Talmud.
(c) Any scholar's insistence on breaking from traditional methods of interpretation.
(d) No having a definitive authority since WWII.

4. What does Danny give Michael?
(a) A request to meet with another doctor.
(b) A copy of the article Kalman writes about David Malter's book.
(c) A weekend pass to go home.
(d) An invitation to a debate.

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

6. What does Danny say about Kotzker Rebbe?
(a) He is delusional.
(b) He is heroic.
(c) He is isolated.
(d) He is demonic.

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

8. What does Reuven tell Danny when he returns to Danny?
(a) That Reuven is not going to see Michael anymore.
(b) That Danny's father is delighted to hear about Rachel.
(c) That Reuven told Reb Saunders about Danny's involvement with Rachel.
(d) That Danny's father is very perturbed with Danny.

9. From what school is Greenfield earning his Ph.D.?
(a) MIT.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Colombia.
(d) Stanford.

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

11. With whom does Rav Kalman have an intense argument?
(a) Reuven Malter.
(b) Professor Gordon.
(c) Rav Gershenson.
(d) David Malter.

12. Out of what class does Greenfield stalk?
(a) Finite mathematics.
(b) Advanced calculus.
(c) Algorithms.
(d) Torah.

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

14. Why is Michael taken away?
(a) For screaming obscenities at other patients.
(b) For trying to slit his wrists.
(c) For setting a fire and cutting Reuven.
(d) For slapping Rachel.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has been upset by Rav Kalman's article on David Malter's book?

2. Why is Rav Kalman's orthodoxy so entrenched?

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

4. What surprises Reuven's father?

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

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