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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After Elka's death, who appears to Gimpel while he is sleeping?
(a) The Spirit of Evil.
(b) God.
(c) The rabbi.
(d) The baker.

3. What does the person in Gimpel's dream say about God?
(a) They are enemies.
(b) God is weak.
(c) There is no God.
(d) They are friends.

4. After leaving Frampol, where does Gimpel go when he dreams?
(a) Into the sky.
(b) Hell.
(c) Frampol.
(d) Heaven.

5. What does Gimpel carry with him in his beggar's sack?
(a) A dradel.
(b) Death shrouds.
(c) A wad of money.
(d) His will.

6. What does Gimpel do after Elka's death?
(a) Celebrate.
(b) Refuse to admit she has died.
(c) Remarry.
(d) Observe a period of mourning.

7. What is Gimpel told to do for revenge against the townspeople?
(a) Steal food from the townspeople.
(b) Defecate on the sidewalk.
(c) Spit in the bread.
(d) Urinate in the bread.

8. After his dream in Chapter 4, what does Gimpel imagine the bread dough is saying to him?
(a) "Throw us at the Spirit of Evil!"
(b) "NO!"
(c) "Do it!"
(d) "We will make good loaves tomorrow."

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

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

11. What does Elka confess on her deathbed?
(a) Their children are not Gimpel's.
(b) She has never loved Gimpel.
(c) She doesn't believe in God.
(d) She has always loved Gimpel.

12. On the night of Gimpel's return after a lengthy separation, what does Elka's "brother" do to Gimpel?
(a) Yells at Gimpel to leave.
(b) Ties Gimpel up and threatens to kill him.
(c) Hugs him and tells him he's glad Gimpel's home.
(d) Jump from behind the oven and strikes him on the head.

13. At the end of the story, how does Gimpel say the afterlife will be?
(a) A burning pit just as the Spirit of Evil said.
(b) Real, without ridicule, complication or deception.
(c) A craps shoot.
(d) A relief.

14. How does Gimpel survive after leaving Frampol?
(a) Through the help of the synagogue.
(b) By scamming people.
(c) By sheepherding.
(d) Through good people who do not neglect him.

15. Does GImpel let himself be persuaded to do what his dream suggests?
(a) He can't remember.
(b) No.
(c) Yes.
(d) Maybe.

Short Answer Questions

1. The morning after Gimpel has returned home from a long separation from Elka, who does Gimpel confront?

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

3. When Gimpel has returned home after being separated and he has completed Elka's errand, what does he ask her?

4. At the end of the story, what does Gimpel say about the world we live in?

5. After taking steps toward revenge, what does the second dream person tell Gimpel?

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