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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. There are religious services how many times per day at Hirsch College, according to Reuven in Chapter 13?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 7.
(d) 1.

2. Reuven’s father tells Danny Saunders that understanding of the silence can only be explained to Danny by whom in Chapter 17?
(a) Levi Saunders.
(b) Reuven Malter.
(c) Reb Saunders.
(d) Dr. Grossman.

3. What word does Reuven research the meaning of to help him understand the trouble Danny has with experimental psychology in Chapter 13?
(a) “Cadaver.”
(b) “Psychic.”
(c) “Unconscious.”
(d) “Embryo.”

4. What gesture does Danny Saunders make that indicates to Reuven he is showing sympathy for Reuven and his father in Chapter 14?
(a) He winks at him.
(b) He brushes him in the hallway.
(c) He tips his hat.
(d) He pats him on the back.

5. What does Reuven ask Danny when he visits him after starting his studies in the end of Chapter 18?
(a) If he is pursuing his law degree.
(b) If he will raise his son in silence.
(c) If he will be married soon.
(d) If he has had a daughter.

6. In Chapter 14, Reuven’s Talmud teacher poses an unexpected question about the reconciliation and Reuven dismisses it as what?
(a) Gematriya.
(b) Kosher.
(c) Seder.
(d) Pilpul.

7. When considering his further education, Danny states that he will remain what?
(a) An Orthodox Jew.
(b) His father's son.
(c) A scientist.
(d) A human being.

8. Danny Saunders’ psychology professor explains to him that no one scientist is what in Chapter 13?
(a) Exceptional.
(b) In charge.
(c) Normal.
(d) God.

9. When Franklin Roosevelt dies in the narrative, Reuven’s father comments that he had seen the country through what?
(a) The Great Depression.
(b) The Bronze Age.
(c) The age of electricity.
(d) The Civil War.

10. Reb Saunders talks about how he was blessed with a brilliant son, but the brilliant son had no what, in Chapter 18?
(a) Common sense.
(b) Soul.
(c) Direction.
(d) Physical abilities.

11. What refers to the virtue of empathy for the suffering of others?
(a) Tolerance.
(b) Apathy.
(c) Misogyny.
(d) Compassion.

12. What is the term used to describe the rabbinic ordination Danny will undergo in Chapter 16?
(a) Payot.
(b) Shabbat.
(c) Pilpul.
(d) Smicha.

13. What has Reuven Malter’s father suffered in Chapter 12?
(a) A heart attack.
(b) An aneurism.
(c) A stroke.
(d) Temporary amnesia.

14. Reuven tells Reb Saunders of his plans to become what in Chapter 18?
(a) A psychologist.
(b) A rabbi.
(c) A biologist.
(d) A photographer.

15. What does Danny say to explain his presence to Reuven in Chapter 16?
(a) “God wants me here.”
(b) “Best friends, always.”
(c) “Will you be my friend again?”
(d) “The ban has been lifted.”

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date are Reuven and his father overjoyed to learn that the establishment of a Jewish state is going to happen in Chapter 14?

2. Passover is a commemoration of the story of what?

3. Reuven’s father returns from the hospital in which month in Chapter 15?

4. Reuven comes to believe that his Talmud teacher sympathizes with what viewpoint in the end of Chapter 14?

5. While he is hospitalized in Chapter 12, Reuven’s father reads everything he can about what?

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