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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Rebbe gives Asher permission to follow which vocation?
(a) Baking.
(b) Clockmaking.
(c) Writing.
(d) Painting.

2. In Chapter 8 while Jacob Kahn is beginning to teach Asher to be an artist, he draws a pen-and-ink drawing of what subject?
(a) Asher.
(b) A still life.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) His home neighborhood.

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

4. Where does Asher go after school when Aryeh is out of town?
(a) The harbor.
(b) The fire station.
(c) The bakery.
(d) The museum.

5. In the beginning of Chapter 5, Asher draws a picture of the burning of which building?
(a) Alexandria's library.
(b) The Parthenon.
(c) The Colosseum.
(d) The Louvre.

Short Answer Questions

1. In order to go to Europe, Asher has to go downtown to obtain which type of document?

2. Who is the Rebbe's chief of staff?

3. On what subject matter does the mashpia teach?

4. In what language does the mashpia communicate with his students?

5. According to the mashpia, which is the type of Jew who attains the greatest measure of righteousness?

(see the answer key)

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