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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one possible explanation for Michael's nosebleeds?
(a) Insomnia.
(b) Being underweight.
(c) Being overweight.
(d) Allergies.

2. How often does Reuven see Rachel between October and December?
(a) Seldom.
(b) Almost daily.
(c) Never.
(d) Several days a week.

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

4. What does Danny say about Michael?
(a) He is just suffering from adolescent hormones.
(b) He is quite mentally ill.
(c) He is only mildly neurotic.
(d) There is nothing wrong with him.

5. Where does Reuven go the day after the fair?
(a) The beach.
(b) Coney Island.
(c) Times Square.
(d) The Empire State Building.

6. What is one thing that is established in the narrator's neighborhood as it becomes more populous?
(a) Two rival gangs.
(b) A bookie system.
(c) Educational institutions.
(d) A neighborhood watch system.

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

8. Why are the Gordons angry with Rachel?
(a) She let Michael gamble.
(b) She is with a non-Jewish date.
(c) She didn't bring Michael home after his first nosebleed.
(d) She lied to her father.

9. What does Michael burn?
(a) A copy of the excommunication writ against his father.
(b) A copy of Mein Kampf.
(c) The trash on the floor.
(d) A copy of the Tanach.

10. What does Michael do that he is cheated out of?
(a) He knocks the milk bottoms over.
(b) He throws three baseballs in the holes.
(c) Nothing.
(d) He wins a trophy.

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

12. What does Reuven's father finish?
(a) A textbook for his students about zoology.
(b) A series of lectures at local Jewish Zionist chapters.
(c) His manuscript.
(d) Building a prayer room onto the house.

13. What do Michael and Reuven talk about as far as the clouds go?
(a) If they can support angels.
(b) What the shapes look like.
(c) If the clouds are solid in another dimension.
(d) Whether they portend a storm.

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

15. Who is the Jewish, elderly man who comes up to Reuven, Rachel and Michael?
(a) The local Rabbi.
(b) A visiting Rabbi from Israel.
(c) Michael's grandfather.
(d) The booth attendant's father.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who has shut himself up for twenty years?

3. Who asks Reuven to talk with Michael?

4. Where does Reuven encounter Professor Gordon?

5. About what is the narrator's father writing a book?

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