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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 enrages Michael and causes him to organize a group of boys to try to get out of the treatment center?
(a) Learning that Professor Gordon has conceded many issues to the orthodoxy.
(b) Danny telling Michael he is to be institutionalized.
(c) Professor Gordon telling Michael he will be disinherited.
(d) Michael learning that Danny and Rachel are involved romantically.

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 visit the foremost Rabbi alive at the time.
(d) To meet with two other Yeshivas who have job offers.

3. What does Kalman say he cannot do?
(a) Push Reuven away.
(b) Understand Reuven.
(c) Pass Reuven.
(d) Allow Reuven's heretics to influence others.

4. From what school is Greenfield earning his Ph.D.?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Stanford.
(c) Colombia.
(d) MIT.

5. Who does Professor Gordon want as his student?
(a) No one; he wants to quit teaching.
(b) Rachel.
(c) Danny.
(d) Reuven.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Reuven realize about Danny's work with Michael?

2. Who does Reuven visit after speaking with Kalman?

3. Who has been upset by Rav Kalman's article on David Malter's book?

4. How do David Malter and Rav Kalman differ academically?

5. What does Danny tell Reuven about Kalman?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Reuven goes in to Michael's room to see him after the fire?

2. What does Danny think about isolation and what does Danny want Reuven to do?

3. What do Danny, Rachel, Reuven and Eileen go to see and what is their response?

4. What does Michael do when Reuven says he is going inside because he is cold?

5. What is Michael's recent disturbing behavior and what precipitated Michael's actions?

6. What do Reuven and Professor Gordon discuss when Reuven visits him?

7. How is David Malter's recent book release still affecting the community?

8. What does Kalman think about Reuven as his student?

9. What does Danny tell Reuven and what is Reuven's reaction?

10. What small breakthrough happens with Michael, and what does his mother want?

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