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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who does Reuven visit after speaking with Kalman?
(a) Michael.
(b) Rachel Gordon.
(c) David Malter.
(d) Danny Saunders.

4. What does Danny want Reuven to convince Michael's parents to do?
(a) Send him to the West Coast to a successful clinic.
(b) Take Michael home.
(c) Let them try isolation therapy on Michael..
(d) Send him to Paris where they are successfully treating his problem.

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

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

7. What is Reb Saunders happy to think about the Gordon family?
(a) They are willing to stand up for their beliefs.
(b) They are well educated.
(c) They observe the commandments.
(d) They are wealthy.

8. What does Kalman keep telling Reuven as far as Reuven himself is concerned?
(a) Kalman does not know what to do with Reuven.
(b) Kalman thinks Reuven would be better as a hands-on Rabbi rather than a theoretical one.
(c) Kalman believes Reuven is misguided by his father.
(d) Kalman thinks Reuven is not suited to being a Rabbi.

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

10. What does Reuven feel caught between in the religious community?
(a) He does not feel caught between anything.
(b) Men who are ambitious.
(c) Tradition and innovation.
(d) Men who desire power.

11. Where is Reuven at the opening of Chapter 9?
(a) With Danny.
(b) In the Frankel library.
(c) In another of Rav Kalman's classes.
(d) With Michael.

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

13. What does Reuven take Danny on Friday?
(a) A copy of David Malter's book.
(b) A written transcript of a conversation with Michael.
(c) A copy of Kalman's commentaries on David Malter's book.
(d) An invitation to a theological discussion.

14. What do Danny and Michael discuss at the opening to Chapter 12?
(a) How to sail in a heavy wind.
(b) Michael's treatment and situation.
(c) Why the orthodox Jews are so rigid.
(d) Michael's future career.

15. Why is Rav Kalman's orthodoxy so entrenched?
(a) No one knows why.
(b) Because of the beatings by his father when Rav Kalman is young.
(c) Because of the horrific events of the holocaust.
(d) Because he knows he is right.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what is Reuven preparing?

2. Why is Abe Greenfield unprepared for class?

3. What does Reuven realize about Danny's work with Michael?

4. What does Michael still refuse to do?

5. What is Reuven's opinion about the proposed treatment for Michael?

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