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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Yudel Krinsky shows Asher how to use a fixative to keep what artistic medium from rubbing off the paper?
(a) Oil paint.
(b) Gouache.
(c) Charcoal.
(d) Pencil.

2. In Chapter 4, when Asher goes to Yudel Krinsky to ask him about Russian Jewish history, what is Yudel eating?
(a) A Seder meal.
(b) Cookies and milk.
(c) Hard-boiled eggs and matzos.
(d) Bagels and lox.

3. Which painting does Jacob Kahn command Asher to study first?
(a) Munch's The Scream.
(b) Van Gogh's Starry Night.
(c) Picasso's Guernica.
(d) Chagall's Lovers in the Moonlight.

4. Who killed Aryeh's father?
(a) An American soldier.
(b) A peasant who was drunk.
(c) Stalin.
(d) A rich Russian landowner.

5. At the beginning of Chapter 7, the mashpia informs Asher that which person wants to meet with him?
(a) Aryeh.
(b) Yudel Krinsky.
(c) Jacob Kahn.
(d) The Rebbe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language does the Rebbe encourage Asher to study in college?

2. Where does Asher insist on staying while his parents go to Europe?

3. Which college does Asher plan to attend?

4. The Ukrainian Jewish Communists published a newspaper called what?

5. One art critic describes Asher's work as having a "menacing affinity" for what?

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