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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jacob Kahn wears what type of facial hair?
(a) Mutton chops.
(b) A beard.
(c) A large mustache.
(d) A goatee.

2. 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 pen.
(b) A notebook and a pencil.
(c) Oil paints.
(d) A box of stationery.

3. What does Asher steal in order to use the gift of his artistry?
(a) Watercolors.
(b) Charcoal pencils.
(c) Stretched canvas.
(d) Oil paints.

4. In Paris, Jacob Kahn worked with which famous artist?
(a) Van Gogh.
(b) Matisse.
(c) Chagall.
(d) Picasso.

5. In what language does the mashpia communicate with his students?
(a) Yiddish.
(b) English.
(c) Aramaic.
(d) Hebrew.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Yudel Krinsky shows Asher how to use a fixative to keep what artistic medium from rubbing off the paper?

3. The Lev family doctor warns Asher about the lead in which color of paint?

4. 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?

5. Asher requests to live with which character while Aryeh and Rivkeh are in Europe?

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