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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is wrong with Elka when she becomes ill?
(a) She is old.
(b) She is insane.
(c) There is a growth on her breast.
(d) She has diabetes.

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

3. What ultimately happens to Elka?
(a) She goes insane.
(b) She leaves Gimpel.
(c) She runs off.
(d) She becomes ill.

4. How many children did Elka bear Gimpel?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Six.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Twenty.

5. What advice does the apprentice give Gimpel?
(a) Watch out for the farmer for he wants Elka.
(b) Ignore the townspeople and their long-tongued babble.
(c) The baker will be mad if Gimpel sends Elka too much food.
(d) If he prays with Elka their marriage will beome stronger.

6. What does the Spirit of Evil look like?
(a) Elka.
(b) Gimpel.
(c) Goatish.
(d) A mound of flames.

7. What do the children of the world call Gimpel?
(a) Dad.
(b) Fool.
(c) Rabbi.
(d) Grandfather.

8. What does Elka tell Gimpel to do as soon as she sees him in the house?
(a) Lay next to her.
(b) Check on the goat.
(c) Tell the children he is back.
(d) Go back to the bakery.

9. How does Gimpel feel on his way home at night after work?
(a) So excited he feels like singing.
(b) Regretful he didn't get a divorce.
(c) Like he has a fever.
(d) Hungry.

10. How does Gimpel say he will meet death?
(a) With resentment.
(b) Regretably.
(c) Joyfully.
(d) With fear.

11. As Gimpel ages, what does he say he comes to understand?
(a) He has passed his test.
(b) There really are no lies.
(c) He should've left his hometown long ago.
(d) Elka wronged him.

12. What did the person do that Gimpel owes thanks to?
(a) Find an obscure reference in Maimonides that favors Gimpel.
(b) Admit they were wrong.
(c) Say extra prayers for Gimpel and his family.
(d) Supply food.

13. Who is Gimpel told he owes thanks to?
(a) The Yanover rabbi.
(b) The farmer.
(c) The baker.
(d) Elka.

14. After Gimpel and Elka's separation, why does Gimpel not want a scandal?
(a) He is tired of drama.
(b) People will accuse him of raising spooks and no one will want the bread he bakes.
(c) He doesn't want to look foolish.
(d) He doesn't want people to think badly of Elka.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Gimpel do after Elka's death?

3. What was the original language of "Gimpel the Fool"?

4. When the rabbi sends for Gimpel, after a long separation from Elka, what does the rabbi ask?

5. After her death, who does Elka think she has fooled?

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