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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the feast celebrating the birth of their child, what does Elka ask Gimpel?
(a) If he is happy.
(b) If he still loves her.
(c) Why he is silent.
(d) Why he isn't tired.

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

3. What is Elka's response to Gimpel's evidence that the child is not his?
(a) Gimpel was wrong about being infertile.
(b) The child has Gimpel's nose.
(c) She reiterates that Gimpel knew she was pregnant before he married her.
(d) The child is his; it was just a premature birth.

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

5. When Gimpel states that he will "never marry that whore", what do the townspeople say?
(a) That no one blames him if he doesn't want to marry Elka.
(b) That Elka is a prostitute.
(c) That he should be ashamed of giving Elka a bad name and they can have him fined by the Rabbi.
(d) That he should be glad that she's easy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Gimpel's nickname?

2. Judging by Gimpel's description, how is Elka's current living situation?

3. Where does Gimpel live?

4. What does Gimpel say most men would do in his situation?

5. What is Gimpel's profession?

(see the answer key)

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