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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Rachel Gorden?
(a) A traveling circus member.
(b) A woman the narrator meets at a Spring party.
(c) The narrator's grandmama.
(d) The neighborhood rabbi's daughter.

2. What does Michael say he cannot get out of his head?
(a) Eternity.
(b) Rachel.
(c) God.
(d) The booth attendant.

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

4. With whom is Reuven dissatisfied in the flashback?
(a) Professor Gordon.
(b) Reuven's oldest brother.
(c) Reuven's father.
(d) Rabbi Rav Kalman

5. Who is David Malter?
(a) Reuven's father.
(b) Reuven's grandfather.
(c) Michael's uncle.
(d) Reuven's neighbor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Giordano Bruno?

2. What does Michael do that he is cheated out of?

3. Where does Reuven go the day after the fair?

4. Why can't Danny meet with Professor Gordon?

5. What is one topic of conversation between Reuven and Michael the next day after the fair?

(see the answer key)

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