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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a mid-week event allow Gimpel to do?
(a) Leave Elka and marry someone else.
(b) Go home to sleep in his own bed.
(c) Get a new job.
(d) Admit to his thieving.

2. After Gimpel enters his house, what does he hear?
(a) The baby crying.
(b) Elka fighting with his new girlfriend.
(c) Elka sobbing.
(d) Double snores.

3. How does Gimpel rationalize Elka's behavior?
(a) "You can't live without errors."
(b) "I have done the same."
(c) "She loves someone else."
(d) "Anything is possible"

4. When the rabbi sends for Gimpel, after a long separation from Elka, what does the rabbi ask?
(a) If Gimpel is ready to divorce Elka.
(b) If Gimpel is ready to marry someone else.
(c) If Gimpel has been praying enough.
(d) If Gimpel is sure he was wrong about his wife.

5. In order to avoid a scandal, what does Gimpel do?
(a) Calms Elka down.
(b) Heads to the temple.
(c) Breaks free of his constraints and ties up the "brother" instead.
(d) Tells Elka to run away in the night.

Short Answer Questions

1. The morning after talking with the Rabbi, where does Gimpel go?

2. What does Gimpel say his foolishness consists of?

3. What advice is given to Gimpel?

4. Rather than get angry himself, what does Gimpel do when presented with a prank?

5. What ultimately happens to Elka?

(see the answer key)

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