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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. When does Reuven return to seminary?
(a) The Friday after Michael is taken to the treatment center.
(b) He has never been in seminary.
(c) He is going to sit out one semester and then go back.
(d) He decides not to return.

2. Who calls Reuven and is acting odd?
(a) Rachel.
(b) Danny.
(c) Michael.
(d) Professor Gordon.

3. What is one major point of Gordon's "theology"?
(a) God is a product of the sum of all souls.
(b) All religions worship the same god.
(c) Theology is not necessary in the modern world.
(d) Jews can fail to believe but remain observant.

4. Who is Rachel Gorden?
(a) A traveling circus member.
(b) The neighborhood rabbi's daughter.
(c) A woman the narrator meets at a Spring party.
(d) The narrator's grandmama.

5. Who is Michael Gordon?
(a) Rachel's cousin.
(b) Rachel's brother.
(c) Rachel's father.
(d) Rachel's uncle.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Danny taught about suffering by his father?

2. About what does Reuven say he has no right to be angry?

3. Where do the narrator and Rachel spend the summer together?

4. About whom does Michael fantasize?

5. According to Reuven, with whom are the Hasid at war?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator's neighborhood change in the early 1950s?

2. Who is Nota Finkel and for what is he noted?

3. What does Reuven say about the Hasid?

4. How does Reuven know Professor Gordon?

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

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

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

8. How does Danny's father raise Danny?

9. What does Reuven reveal in a flashback?

10. What happens between October and December for Reuven?

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