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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where is David Malter offered a position?
(a) He does not want a new position.
(b) Nowhere.
(c) At the Frankel Seminary.
(d) At the Yeshiva where Professor Gordon teaches.

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

5. What does Reuven feel towards Kalman?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Respect.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Bitterness.

6. What does Michael say to a nurse?
(a) He is never going to talk to his father again.
(b) He is abandoning Judaism.
(c) He knows what he must do.
(d) He is leaving the United States.

7. What does Kalman say to Reuven in class?
(a) He apologizes for his article about Reuven's father's book.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Only what is relevant to the daily lesson.
(d) He acts as though nothing is different.

8. Why does Michael think his father exhausts himself?
(a) To find a cure for Michael.
(b) To prove God exists.
(c) To feel good about his life.
(d) To save religion.

9. With whom does Greenfield argue?
(a) Reuven.
(b) No one.
(c) Danny.
(d) Kalman.

10. What is going on with Michael during this time?
(a) He is sitting silent and motionless on his mattress.
(b) He has killed himself.
(c) He is in a coma.
(d) He is talking about his feelings finally.

11. Who does Kalman believe has the authority to interpret ancient Hebrew texts?
(a) Anyone who has studied the necessary prerequisites.
(b) No one.
(c) The great commentators of old.
(d) Only an ordained Rabbi.

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

13. What does Michael still refuse to do?
(a) Go to synagogue.
(b) Eat.
(c) Talk about himself.
(d) Admit he has a problem.

14. To whom does Kalman apologize?
(a) Greenfield.
(b) Professor Gordon.
(c) Danny.
(d) Reuven.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Reuven continue to do with Rav Kalman?

2. What does Rav Kalman ask Reuven?

3. From what school is Greenfield earning his Ph.D.?

4. Why is Abe Greenfield unprepared for class?

5. What languages are difficult for Kalman in reading David Malter's book?

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