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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. About what does Professor Gordon ask Reuben?
(a) The fair and Michael's behavior.
(b) If Reuven is interested in Rachel.
(c) If God is demanding.
(d) Whether God is a just god.

3. According to Reuven, with whom are the Hasid at war?
(a) Secularism.
(b) No one.
(c) Creationists.
(d) Reformists.

4. Who was Nota Finkel?
(a) He was a fanatical Zionist who changed his mind about Israel.
(b) He was a well-known Talmudist.
(c) He quashed a secularist revolt.
(d) He was excommuicated in the 1800s for heresy.

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

6. Who has been seeing Rachel more and more?
(a) Reuven.
(b) Michael.
(c) An unnamed man from Harvard.
(d) Danny.

7. What type of an emergency has Danny had in this chapter that tires him?
(a) The hospital where Daniel works catches fire.
(b) His house catches fire.
(c) An emergency with a schizophrenic boy.
(d) His father dies.

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

9. What is one adjective that describes Kalman?
(a) Despondent.
(b) Harsh.
(c) Kindly.
(d) Optimistic.

10. What sect is the seminary that Reuven attends?
(a) Hasidic.
(b) Conservative.
(c) Reform.
(d) Orthodox.

11. According to rumors, what is one thing Kalman goes through during WWII?
(a) Being forced to work in mines in Poland.
(b) Fleeing from Germany to Australia.
(c) Seeing his family shot.
(d) Seeing his children taken for adoption by German families.

12. What does Reuven decide to teach Michael?
(a) How to sail.
(b) How to read Hebrew.
(c) How to whittle.
(d) How to dance.

13. What time frame does Chapter 5 concern?
(a) It is not stated.
(b) Late 1952.
(c) Early 1951.
(d) Autumn to early December of 1951.

14. Who is Michael Gordon?
(a) Rachel's cousin.
(b) Rachel's uncle.
(c) Rachel's brother.
(d) Rachel's father.

15. About what does Reuven say he has no right to be angry?
(a) The reception of his father's book.
(b) Who Rachel is becoming serious with romantically.
(c) Reuven does not talk about being angry.
(d) Kalman's actions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the day after the sailing trip?

2. According to Rueven's friend, what rumors are circulating through the seminary?

3. Who is Abraham Gordon?

4. What do Michael and Reuven talk about as far as the clouds go?

5. Where is the setting at the opening of the Introduction?

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