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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Gimpel returns home after months of being away, who does Gimpel see in the bed next to Elka?
(a) The farmer.
(b) The apprentice.
(c) The Yanover rabbi.
(d) The baker.

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

3. What does Gimpel tell Elka on her deathbed?
(a) He knows she has done him wrong and will never forgive her.
(b) The goat is fine and not to worry.
(c) There is nothing to forgive, and that Elka has been a good and faithful wife.
(d) She will not be cremated but buried.

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

5. Why does Elka make her deathbed confession?
(a) She wants to go clean to her maker.
(b) She wants Gimpel to know he wasn't her true love.
(c) She just thought Gimpel should know.
(d) She is hallucinating.

6. After Gimpel reiterates what he saw in his bed when he returned home after their separation, what does Elka do?
(a) Yells and says an evil spirit has taken root inside Gimpel and dazzles his sight.
(b) Admit her wrongdoing.
(c) Beg for forgiveness.
(d) Sends him out to look at the goat again.

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

8. What does Gimpel do during his travels?
(a) Sleep a lot.
(b) Spin yarns (tell stories).
(c) Beg for money and drink ale.
(d) Bake bread.

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

10. Who does Gimpel blame for his vengeance?
(a) God.
(b) Elka.
(c) Himself.
(d) The townspeople.

11. Gimpel states that, "All kinds of things happened," but what else does he say about these events?
(a) He was angered by these events.
(b) Because of these things he left Elka.
(c) He neither saw nor heard, simply believed.
(d) They only happened in his mind.

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

13. When Gimpel awakens after dreaming of Elka, what mementos does he have?
(a) The feel of Elka's lips and taste of her tears.
(b) Scratches from the Spirit of Evil.
(c) Stray hairs from his children.
(d) An ancient Torah by his bed of straw.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Does GImpel let himself be persuaded to do what his dream suggests?

2. By the time he is older, how has Gimpel's career progressed?

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

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

5. What ultimately happens to Elka?

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