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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. When Danny Saunders visits Reuven Malter in Chapter 7, he wants to take Reuven where to meet his father?
(a) His aunt's apartment.
(b) His mother's home.
(c) His father’s Shul.
(d) Madison Square Garden.

2. Danny Saunders’ father brought his congregation to the United States and settled in what neighborhood of Brooklyn?
(a) Clinton hill.
(b) Williamsburg.
(c) South Park Slope.
(d) Sheepshead bay.

3. Danny Saunders finds Reuven at the library and reads aloud to him passages from what book in Chapter 8?
(a) Jews, God, and History.
(b) The History of the Jews.
(c) The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels.
(d) Jews, Gentiles, and Christianity.

4. Reuven's father says in Chapter 4 that "two people who are true friends are like two bodies with” what?
(a) “One mind.”
(b) “One heart.”
(c) “One soul.”
(d) “One ear.”

5. By what name is Danny Saunders’ father referred to in the novel?
(a) Don Saunders.
(b) Jed Saunders.
(c) Reb Saunders.
(d) Max Saunders.

Short Answer Questions

1. Only what language is spoken at the service at Danny Saunders’ synagogue in Chapter 7?

2. According to Reuven’s father in Chapter 6, the Cossacks were members of what church in Russia?

3. Reuven takes part in the Torah service by doing what in Chapter 7?

4. Reuven is amazed in Chapter 5 that the baseball game accident had happened only how many days ago?

5. Reuven calls Billy’s home to see how his surgery went in Chapter 9. What does Reuven learn?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is foreshadowed by David Malter’s comments about friendship in Chapter 4?

2. What does Reuven’s father say he understands about Danny and Reuven’s place in Danny’s life in Chapter 6?

3. What is indicated by Reuven’s thoughts in the beginning of Chapter 8?

4. How is Reuven’s health in the beginning of Chapter 9? What do he and Danny discuss when they meet?

5. What is demonstrated by Danny’s interests in psychoanalysis in the novel?

6. Why does Reb Saunders call Reuven’s father in Chapter 2? How does Reuven respond?

7. What does Reuven discover about Billy Merritt in Chapter 9?

8. How is Danny Saunders described in Chapter 1? What is Danny’s apparel like? Where does he live?

9. Who does Reuven meet in his hospital room after he awakens from surgery in Chapter 2?

10. What is the implication when Reuven’s eyes are tested in the light in Chapter 2?

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