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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. Where does Reuven go after Kalman's class?
(a) To sail.
(b) To see Rachel.
(c) To talk to the Rabbi of his synogogue.
(d) To see Michael.

2. What does Ruth Gordon want?
(a) Rachel to marry Ruth's best friend's son.
(b) Rachel to marry Danny soon.
(c) Michael to be moved to an institution.
(d) The experiment on Michael stopped.

3. What does Michael perceive about many things?
(a) They belong to aliens.
(b) They are unreal.
(c) They are harmful.
(d) They are dirty.

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

5. What does Reuven take Danny on Friday?
(a) A written transcript of a conversation with Michael.
(b) A copy of Kalman's commentaries on David Malter's book.
(c) A copy of David Malter's book.
(d) An invitation to a theological discussion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kalman claim unravels and destroys the Talmud's authority?

2. Out of what does David think Kalman is acting?

3. What does Danny want Reuven to convince Michael's parents to do?

4. Why does Michael think his father exhausts himself?

5. What does Danny say about Kotzker Rebbe?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the essential argument of the second part of Rav Kalman's article attacking David Malter's book?

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

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

5. What is the impact of David Malter's book and Kalman's ensuing article on the Yeshiva where David teaches?

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

7. What does Danny's father want to learn and what is his reaction when Reuven tells him?

8. What does Reuven argue at his smicha exam and why is that upsetting to Kalman and Gershenson?

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

10. What does Reb Saunders tell Reuven and what does Reuven do?

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