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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the child named after?
(a) Gimpel's mother.
(b) Gimpel's father.
(c) Elka's father.
(d) Elka's mother.

2. What is Gimpel's reasoning in the resolution that he reached while separated from his wife?
(a) He will get revenge on the townspeople for making him marry Elka.
(b) If he is Christian he wont be harassed as much.
(c) If he divorces Elka she will look like the fool.
(d) What's the good of not believing? Today it's your wife you don't belive, tomorrow it's God.

3. What is Gimpel's reasoning for considering marrying Elka?
(a) He has heard that she is very pretty.
(b) When you're married the husband is the master and if that's agreeable with her, it's agreeable to him too.
(c) He shouldn't be judgmental.
(d) "Waste not, want not."

4. How long does Gimpel live with Elka?
(a) Twenty years.
(b) A century.
(c) Two months.
(d) Fifty years.

5. When Gimpel returns home after months of being away, who does Gimpel see in the bed next to Elka?
(a) The farmer.
(b) The Yanover rabbi.
(c) The apprentice.
(d) The baker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is said about Elka at the wedding ceremony?

2. While on her deathbed, what does Elka ask Gimpel to do?

3. What does Elka give birth to?

4. After the feast celebrating the birth of their child, what does Elka ask Gimpel?

5. Where does Gimpel want to go?

(see the answer key)

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