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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Against what does Kalman fight?
(a) The exclusion of Reuven in the group of examinees.
(b) Allowing Professor Gordon to guest lecture at his school.
(c) The formation of a rabbinics department.
(d) The inclusion of Reuven in the group of examinees.

2. 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.

3. What does Reuven realize about Danny's work with Michael?
(a) It is ineffective.
(b) It is a shot in the dark.
(c) It is an attempt to justify Danny's own life choices.
(d) It is motivated by deep compassion.

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

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

6. What does Kalman think Reuven wavers between?
(a) Zeal and apathy.
(b) Hot and cold.
(c) The physical and spiritual worlds.
(d) Orthodoxy and heterodoxy.

7. 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) Write an interpretation using strictly orthodox standards.
(c) Make a decision.
(d) Bring his father in to talk with Kalman.

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

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

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

11. For what is Reuven preparing?
(a) To travel to a European Yeshiva.
(b) Marriage.
(c) His smicha examination.
(d) To visit Michael.

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

13. What does Michael perceive about many things?
(a) They are dirty.
(b) They belong to aliens.
(c) They are unreal.
(d) They are harmful.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Reuven notice about his father?

2. What does Ruth Gordon want?

3. What is the setting at the opening to Chapter 8?

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

5. To whom does Reuven talk about Michael's actions?

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