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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what does Professor Gordon ask Reuben?
(a) The fair and Michael's behavior.
(b) Whether God is a just god.
(c) If God is demanding.
(d) If Reuven is interested in Rachel.

2. About whom does Michael fantasize?
(a) Reuven.
(b) Rachel.
(c) Michael's next-door neighbor.
(d) Sarah.

3. What past experience of Rabbi Kalman's does Reuven mention?
(a) The death of the Rabbi's oldest daughter.
(b) Being interned in a concentration camp.
(c) Fleeing Germany New Zealand in the late 1930s.
(d) Fighting in the Jewish underground in Germany.

4. Who has been seeing Rachel more and more?
(a) Michael.
(b) Reuven.
(c) Danny.
(d) An unnamed man from Harvard.

5. What does Michael do that he is cheated out of?
(a) Nothing.
(b) He throws three baseballs in the holes.
(c) He knocks the milk bottoms over.
(d) He wins a trophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Reuven hear about Michael?

2. What does Danny say about Michael?

3. Who calls Reuven and is acting odd?

4. What classes does Reuven study?

5. What does Reuven's father finish?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the elderly man who is the father of the booth attendant at the dice game.

2. How does Reuven work out a way to meet Professor Gordon?

3. What are the narrator's plans for his schooling and what were the influences on his choice?

4. What does Michael say about the universe when he is back home after the fair?

5. How does Danny become involved with the Gordon family?

6. When does Michael get a nosebleed at the fair, and what do Reuven and Rachel do?

7. What rumors infuriate Reuven and his father?

8. Who does Reuven encounter at the library and what is the person doing?

9. Where do Michael and Reuven go the day after the fair, and what does Reuven teach Michael?

10. Describe the neighborhood in which the narrator lives at the opening of the The Promise.

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