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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator decide to do?
(a) Go to rabbinical school.
(b) Move to Israel.
(c) Join the army.
(d) Return to Eurpoe after it is rebuilt.

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

3. 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.

4. What is the day after the sailing trip?
(a) No special day.
(b) Yom Kippur.
(c) Hanukkah.
(d) Shabbat.

5. What is one topic of conversation between Reuven and Michael the next day after the fair?
(a) Michael's nosebleeds.
(b) The defeat of Germany.
(c) Rachel's good points.
(d) Rachel's family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kalman ask of Reuven?

2. Who asks Reuven to talk with Michael?

3. What classes does Reuven study?

4. Why is Professor Gordon exhausted at the opening to Chapter 4?

5. How is Michael doing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Reuven say about the Hasid?

2. What happens between October and December for Reuven?

3. What does Michael say about orthodox Jews?

4. Describe the game which Michael is playing and which is making Reuven and Rachel nervous for him.

5. Describe Rav Kalman.

6. What is the topic of Michael's long-winded monologue to Reuven?

7. Who does Reuven encounter at the library and what is the person doing?

8. How does the narrator's neighborhood change in the early 1950s?

9. Describe the neighborhood in which the narrator lives at the opening of the The Promise.

10. What does Reuven reveal in a flashback?

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