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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Asher enters the Rebbe's office, what is the first question the Rebbe asks?
(a) "How is your father?"
(b) "How are you?"
(c) "How is your mother?"
(d) "Is school going well?"

2. When Asher finishes his visit with the Rebbe, what is lying on his chair in the waiting room?
(a) A letter.
(b) A woodcarving.
(c) A folded pencil drawing.
(d) A small oil painting.

3. When Jacob Kahn is demanding that Asher consider a different vocation, he describes art as what?
(a) A feel-good experience.
(b) A wife.
(c) A god.
(d) A religion.

4. What is the phrase used to describe the origin of things that are not holy or good?
(a) Sitra achra.
(b) Shabbos.
(c) Ribbono shel olom.
(d) Krias shema.

5. In Chapter 2, when Asher begins to go to Yudel Krinsky's store for conversation, he feels that he has to buy something every time. What does he buy first?
(a) A notebook and a pencil.
(b) A pen.
(c) Oil paints.
(d) A box of stationery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who killed Aryeh's father?

2. Who does not come to the Lev home on Sundays, leaving Rivkeh and Asher to fix lunch for themselves?

3. In Chapter 6, Asher begins to want to use which artistic medium and discovers that he cannot afford it?

4. In Chapter 6 during class, Asher draws a picture in which book?

5. On what subject matter does the mashpia teach?

(see the answer key)

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