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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which character does not want to leave Brooklyn to go to Europe?
(a) Rivkeh.
(b) Asher.
(c) The Rebbe.
(d) Yitzchok Lev.

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

3. Which character's unexpected death causes Rivkeh to fall into a serious depression?
(a) The Rebbe.
(b) Yaakov.
(c) Asher's brother.
(d) Aryeh.

4. In Chapter 2, Aryeh is greatly disturbed at the brutal deaths of which group of people?
(a) German Jewish jewelers.
(b) Eastern European yeshiva teachers.
(c) Russian Jewish writers.
(d) Russian Jewish factory workers.

5. The Ukrainian Jewish Communists published a newspaper called what?
(a) Stern.
(b) The Chumash.
(c) Pesach.
(d) The Kiev Times.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the phrase used to describe the origin of things that are not holy or good?

2. What is the place where Aryeh goes regularly to have a ritual bath?

3. After feeling unable to correctly tint the shadows of Rivkeh's cheek with a pencil, Asher uses what object to create the color of shadow?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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