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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens four months after Gimpel and Elka get married?
(a) Elka miscarries.
(b) Elka gets pregnant.
(c) They get divorced.
(d) Elka gives birth.

2. How do townspeople react to Gimpel's actions regarding the event that occurred while the couple was separated?
(a) They refreshed their spirits.
(b) They were angry.
(c) They threw a party.
(d) They didn't react for they they had stopped caring.

3. When people glare at the child, what does Gimpel do?
(a) Soothes the child with coos and words of love.
(b) Gets the child an abracadabra.
(c) Tells the child to get used to it, for the child is a bastard.
(d) Punches the glaring person in the mouth.

4. What wedding gift made Gimpel suspicious?
(a) Arsenic.
(b) A Bible.
(c) A shovel and a set of knives.
(d) A crib.

5. Who translated "Gimpel the Fool"?
(a) Maya Angelou.
(b) Saul Bellow.
(c) Isaac Bashevis Singer.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Gimpel's profession?

2. How does Gimpel rationalize Elka's behavior?

3. After her big confession to Gimpel, what does Elka do?

4. After seeing the suspicious wedding gift, what is Gimpel's resolution?

5. What is Elka's response to Gimpel's evidence that the child is not his?

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