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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. Who is Abraham Gordon?
(a) The temple cantor.
(b) A man who escaped from Ravensbrook.
(c) Rachel Gorden's father.
(d) A professor who is hated by the Jewish orthodoxy.
2. Who was Nota Finkel?
(a) He was a well-known Talmudist.
(b) He was excommuicated in the 1800s for heresy.
(c) He was a fanatical Zionist who changed his mind about Israel.
(d) He quashed a secularist revolt.
3. To what religion does the narrator's neighborhood belong?
(a) Christian.
(b) Muslim.
(c) Jewish.
(d) Buddhism.
4. What does Michael see in himself?
(a) A passionate truth seeker.
(b) A cynic.
(c) Some of his father.
(d) His grandfather.
5. According to Rueven's friend, what rumors are circulating through the seminary?
(a) That Reuven is going to be dismissed from seminary.
(b) That Reuven plans to marry Rachel Gordon.
(c) That Kalman has a personal vendetta against Professor Gordon,
(d) That Reuven is going to apply to Professor Gordon's seminary.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Reuven's father finish?
2. What is one major point of Gordon's "theology"?
3. How does Reuven describe Professor Gordon?
4. Why can't Danny meet with Professor Gordon?
5. What is one adjective that describes Kalman?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Kalman discuss with Reuven after class concerning Professor Gordon?
2. Who does Reuven encounter at the library and what is the person doing?
3. How does Reuven know Professor Gordon?
4. What does Reuven reveal in a flashback?
5. How does Danny's father raise Danny?
6. What does Reuven say about the Hasid?
7. Who does the narrator meet in Spring of 1950 that changes his view some about his religion?
8. Where does Professor Gordon invite Reuven and what does Reuven do?
9. When does Michael get a nosebleed at the fair, and what do Reuven and Rachel do?
10. How does the narrator's neighborhood change in the early 1950s?
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