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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One, Chapter Four.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why has the population of the narrator's neighborhood grown rapidly by 1950?
(a) The population has not increased much at all.
(b) People are escaping persecution in other countries.
(c) A high birth rate after the end of WWII.
(d) The government offered free housing to people who would work in the factories there during the war.

2. Where do the narrator and Rachel spend the summer together?
(a) In New Brunswick.
(b) On a ranch in the Rockies.
(c) In Nova Scotia.
(d) In Peekskill.

3. To what time does a flashback go?
(a) Fall, 1949.
(b) Fall, 1949.
(c) January, 1948.
(d) January, 1950.

4. What is one image Michael sees in the clouds?
(a) Mount Olympus.
(b) His dead grandfather.
(c) Zeus.
(d) The old man from the fair the night before.

5. How is Rachel's aunt helping Professor Gordon?
(a) She keeps track of his correspondence.
(b) She types his manuscripts.
(c) She is a nurse and cares for him.
(d) She proofs his writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Michael see in himself?

2. About what does Michael feel bad?

3. Why does Michael hate orthodox Jews?

4. What sects have inhabited the narrator's neighborhood?

5. What is one possible explanation for Michael's nosebleeds?

(see the answer key)

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