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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What advice is given to Gimpel?
(a) That he should bake more bread.
(b) That he should laugh off the jokes.
(c) That he is foolish and should accept it.
(d) That he his not a fool. They are the fools.

2. Does Gimpel believe Elka's story about the child?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) Yes, but he knows he can't tell fact from fiction, so really no.
(d) He isn't sure.

3. What does the Rabbi eventually allow Gimpel to do?
(a) Send bread and money to Elka.
(b) Go back to work.
(c) Remarry.
(d) Eat everything he wants.

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

5. What is Gimpel's reasoning for considering marrying Elka?
(a) He shouldn't be judgmental.
(b) When you're married the husband is the master and if that's agreeable with her, it's agreeable to him too.
(c) He has heard that she is very pretty.
(d) "Waste not, want not."

Short Answer Questions

1. When he visits Elka's house, what takes Gimpel's breath away?

2. After the feast celebrating the birth of their child, what does Elka ask Gimpel?

3. What does a mid-week event allow Gimpel to do?

4. The day after Elka's explanation about the child, who does Gimpel visit to talk things over?

5. Even though Gimpel wanted to sleep at home, where does he stay instead?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gimpel feel and do for the baby?

2. What does Gimpel come to understand at the end of the story, and why?

3. While on her deathbed, what does Elka ask of Gimpel and why?

4. What happens nine months after Gimpel and Elka are separated?

5. What is Gimpel's religion and how do we know this?

6. What is Gimpel's living situation as a child?

7. Describe the messenger that Gimpel uses to send his family supplies during his separation from his family.

8. What does the second person he dreams of say to Gimpel?

9. Why doesn't Gimpel get angry in Chapter 2 when he returns home early from the bakery? What does Gimpel do instead?

10. Who does Gimpel visit the day after he returned home early from the bakery, and what is he told to do?

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