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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Elka do ten times a day?
(a) Tell Gimpel how much she loves him.
(b) Eat.
(c) Threaten to divorce Gimpel.
(d) Pray.

2. When presented with accusations of infidelity, what does Elka do?
(a) Denies them and claims Gimpel is crazy.
(b) Stands silent.
(c) Admits her wrong-doings.
(d) Leaves the room.

3. After rationalizing Elka's behavior, what does Gimpel begin to agree with Elka on?
(a) That Gimpel was hallucinating.
(b) That the baby is his.
(c) That the sky is green.
(d) That Gimpel is a fool.

4. What festivities occurred at Gimpel and Elka's wedding?
(a) Drinking, singing and dancing.
(b) None--no one came to the wedding.
(c) Eating contests.
(d) Poker and Yahtzee were played.

5. What is said about Elka at the wedding ceremony?
(a) She smells bad.
(b) She isn't fit to be wed.
(c) She doesn't really love Gimpel.
(d) She is both a widow and divorced.

6. Rather than get angry himself, what does Gimpel do when presented with a prank?
(a) Believes the pranksters and hopes it does them some good.
(b) Laughs and then tries the same joke on someone else.
(c) Calmly tells the pranksters he knows a joke when he hears one.
(d) Runs away.

7. How does Gimpel begin to feel about Elka?
(a) He ignores her.
(b) He loves her.
(c) He is ambivalent.
(d) He hates her.

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

9. What is the true relation of the person who lives with Elka?
(a) He is her brother.
(b) He is her uncle.
(c) He is her illegitimate son.
(d) He is her cousin.

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

11. Gimpel is what?
(a) Audio Assistant.
(b) Orphan.
(c) Ogre.
(d) Overweight child.

12. 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 he should be ashamed of giving Elka a bad name and they can have him fined by the Rabbi.
(c) That he should be glad that she's easy.
(d) That Elka is a prostitute.

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

14. Instead of raisins, what do the other children put in Gimpel's hand?
(a) Grapes.
(b) Rocks.
(c) Prunes.
(d) Goat turds.

15. What happens mid-week at the bakery?
(a) Gimpel meets a new love interest.
(b) Gimpel gets fired from his job.
(c) Gimpel is caught stealing bread.
(d) The oven bursts and almost causes a fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the townspeople afraid of Elka?

2. What advice is given to Gimpel regarding Elka's explanation about the child?

3. As a joke, what do the townspeople tell Gimpel has happened to his parents?

4. After Gimpel enters his house, what does he hear?

5. What does Elka give birth to?

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