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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Michael get a nosebleed?
(a) Tripping and falling down.
(b) Standing up in a ride at the fair.
(c) Playing soccer.
(d) Fighting.
2. What does Reuven decide to teach Michael?
(a) How to whittle.
(b) How to read Hebrew.
(c) How to sail.
(d) How to dance.
3. What do Michael and Reuven talk about as far as the clouds go?
(a) What the shapes look like.
(b) Whether they portend a storm.
(c) If the clouds are solid in another dimension.
(d) If they can support angels.
4. What is one major point of Gordon's "theology"?
(a) Theology is not necessary in the modern world.
(b) All religions worship the same god.
(c) Jews can fail to believe but remain observant.
(d) God is a product of the sum of all souls.
5. Who is David Malter?
(a) Reuven's neighbor.
(b) Michael's uncle.
(c) Reuven's grandfather.
(d) Reuven's father.
6. Why does Michael hate orthodox Jews?
(a) He does not hate them; he is fascinated with them.
(b) Because they make other Jews look unholy.
(c) Because the girl he likes father is one and he will not allow them to see each other.
(d) Because they are fanatics and hypocrites.
7. Who has gotten in fist fights with others?
(a) Reuven's youngest brother.
(b) Michael.
(c) Rachel's brother.
(d) Danny's youngest brother.
8. How many therapists has Michael been to over the past 14 months?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 0.
(d) 2.
9. 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.
10. Who has been seeing Rachel more and more?
(a) Danny.
(b) Reuven.
(c) Michael.
(d) An unnamed man from Harvard.
11. What does Michael do that he is cheated out of?
(a) He throws three baseballs in the holes.
(b) Nothing.
(c) He wins a trophy.
(d) He knocks the milk bottoms over.
12. What is the name of the narrator in the Introduction?
(a) Chaim.
(b) Esther.
(c) He is not yet named.
(d) Jonathon.
13. Why can't Danny meet with Professor Gordon?
(a) He has to work.
(b) He has an emergency.
(c) He is ill.
(d) He is in Europe.
14. Who asks Reuven to talk with Michael?
(a) Danny.
(b) Rachel Gordon.
(c) Professor Gordon.
(d) Reuven's father.
15. To what time does a flashback go?
(a) January, 1948.
(b) Fall, 1949.
(c) January, 1950.
(d) Fall, 1949.
Short Answer Questions
1. About whom does Rachel ask Reuven?
2. Who is Giordano Bruno?
3. What does Reuven's father finish?
4. Who calls Reuven and is acting odd?
5. To whom does the conversation between Danny and Reuven turn after talking about Rachel?
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