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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the person Gimpel confronts tell Gimpel to do?
(a) Leave Elkaif he truely loves her.
(b) See an herb doctor or healer, as something is wrong with Gimpel's head.
(c) Bake some break for dinner that night.
(d) Admit that he isn't actually Elka's husband.

2. Even though Gimpel has not seen his wife, what does he do to celebrate the event that occurred while the couple was separated?
(a) Skips the period of mourning.
(b) Invoke a blessing for the baby boy and name him.
(c) Invoke a blessing on the baby girl and name her.
(d) Divorces Elka.

3. When he visits Elka's house, what takes Gimpel's breath away?
(a) The amount of dust on everything.
(b) Elka's decorating skills.
(c) The reeking smell.
(d) Elka's beauty.

4. What was the original language of "Gimpel the Fool"?
(a) German.
(b) Arabic.
(c) Yiddish.
(d) Latin.

5. After her big confession to Gimpel, what does Elka do?
(a) She asks about the goat again.
(b) She recovers.
(c) She dies.
(d) She falls asleep.

Short Answer Questions

1. Because of Gimpel's thieving, what happens to Elka?

2. What happens mid-week at the bakery?

3. What do the children of the world call Gimpel?

4. What happens when the sexton announces the birth of Gimpel's child at the synagogue?

5. After Elka's death, who appears to Gimpel while he is sleeping?

(see the answer key)

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