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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the narrator decide to do?
2. Who has shut himself up for twenty years?
3. What time frame does Chapter 5 concern?
4. How is Michael doing?
5. What is the day after the sailing trip?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Reuven know Professor Gordon?
2. Describe the elderly man who is the father of the booth attendant at the dice game.
3. How does Reuven work out a way to meet Professor Gordon?
4. Describe Reuven's visit with Danny.
5. How does Danny become involved with the Gordon family?
6. What does Michael say about orthodox Jews?
7. Who does Reuven call the day after sailing with Michael and what is the result?
8. Describe Reuven and Michael's phone conversation.
9. What do Reuven and Professor Gordon discuss about Michael?
10. When does Michael get a nosebleed at the fair, and what do Reuven and Rachel do?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the following:
1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful novel?
2. Analyze and discuss The Promise based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if The Promise is a successful novel. Explain your rationale with specific examples.
3. Do you think the fact that The Promise deals with a very specific, narrow subject matter changes the criteria upon which its success should be judged? Explain.
Essay Topic 2
In chapter 3, the narrator relates that Rav Kalman is a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp. Discuss the following:
1. Research and write a brief informative essay on the Nazi concentration camps of WWII. Why were they established? Who was sent to them? How many died there? How many survived? Offer your own thoughts about the concentration camps.
2. What sort of emotional and psychological damage do you think Rav Kalman could be suffering from as a result of having lived through the experience of a concentration camp?
3. Why do you think Rav Kalman came out of the camp with a still-firm faith in his God?
4. Do you think the concentration camp experience caused very many survivors to abandon their faith in God?
Essay Topic 3
Michael hates orthodox Jews because he thinks they try to keep people from speaking the truth as the person sees it. Discuss one of the following:
1. Discuss and analyze the theme of truth in The Promise. Is there one truth? Many truths? Does any character have "the truth"?
2. Many wars have been fought over the concept of "the truth." Discuss one war that was waged over a difference in the perception of truth and what the core issue(s) was. Relate your research back to The Promise.
3. Thoroughly discucss one thing you think is absolutely true and then relate your beliefs in that truth to one character's beliefs about the truth in The Promise.
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