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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what language are lessons taught at Reuven Malter’s school in Chapter 1?
(a) English.
(b) Yiddish.
(c) Hebrew.
(d) Jewish.

2. Reuven becomes upset because whose notions contradict everything he knows in Chapter 12?
(a) Adolf Hitler's.
(b) Pablo Picasso’s.
(c) Heidegger’s.
(d) Sigmund Freud’s.

3. How old is Danny Saunders in Chapter 1?
(a) 15.
(b) 9.
(c) 12.
(d) 8.

4. What was responsible for causing Billy’s blindness in the novel?
(a) A chemical spill.
(b) An explosion.
(c) A car accident.
(d) A hunting accident.

5. Who led the Cossacks when they rose up against the Nobles, according to Reuven’s father in Chapter 6?
(a) Bogdan Chmielnicki.
(b) Dmitry Donskoy.
(c) Dmytro Vyshnevetsky.
(d) Alexander Tsiurupa.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, Reuven's father tells him that "[t]he Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself. One is to acquire” what?

2. What is the term used to describe the rabbinic ordination Danny will undergo in Chapter 16?

3. What does Reuven’s father refer to as discussion about the Talmud that has no relationship to the world in Chapter 6?

4. Reuven has war maps from what periodical all over his walls in Chapter 5?

5. Reuven has a picture of what physicist on his wall in Chapter 5?

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