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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. What does Reuven decide to teach Michael?
(a) How to whittle.
(b) How to sail.
(c) How to dance.
(d) How to read Hebrew.

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

3. Why has the population of the narrator's neighborhood grown rapidly by 1950?
(a) The population has not increased much at all.
(b) A high birth rate after the end of WWII.
(c) The government offered free housing to people who would work in the factories there during the war.
(d) People are escaping persecution in other countries.

4. Why does Michael hate orthodox Jews?
(a) Because the girl he likes father is one and he will not allow them to see each other.
(b) Because they make other Jews look unholy.
(c) He does not hate them; he is fascinated with them.
(d) Because they are fanatics and hypocrites.

5. Who is Abraham Gordon?
(a) The temple cantor.
(b) Rachel Gorden's father.
(c) A man who escaped from Ravensbrook.
(d) A professor who is hated by the Jewish orthodoxy.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to rumors, what is one thing Kalman goes through during WWII?

2. Where is the setting at the opening of the Introduction?

3. What sects have inhabited the narrator's neighborhood?

4. What does Michael burn?

5. According to Reuven, what will happen to the Hasid if they do not change?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What has Reuven's father completed during the Fall and early Winter?

3. What rumors infuriate Reuven and his father?

4. About whom does Rachel ask Reuven and what is his reply?

5. Describe the game which Michael is playing and which is making Reuven and Rachel nervous for him.

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

7. What does Michael say about orthodox Jews?

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

9. What do Reuven and Professor Gordon discuss about Michael?

10. Describe Reuven and Michael's phone conversation.

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