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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the mashpia, which is the type of Jew who attains the greatest measure of righteousness?
(a) The Ladover Hasid.
(b) The benoni.
(c) The tzaddik.
(d) The rosho.

2. What maintained observant Judaism in Russia during the years before World War II?
(a) The synagogues.
(b) The krias shema.
(c) The Rebbe.
(d) Ladover yeshivos.

3. What type of hat does Yudel Krinsky wear?
(a) A fez.
(b) A yarmulke.
(c) A toboggan.
(d) A kaskett.

4. What is Yitzchok Lev's profession?
(a) Watchmaker.
(b) Stockbroker.
(c) Baker.
(d) Professor.

5. In order to go to Europe, Asher has to go downtown to obtain which type of document?
(a) A passport.
(b) A birth certificate.
(c) A plane ticket.
(d) A Social Security card.

6. What language does Mrs. Rackover speak?
(a) Yiddish.
(b) Hebrew.
(c) Russian.
(d) English.

7. Which of the following publications does Aryeh NOT read?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) The Economist.
(c) Time.
(d) Newsweek.

8. What does Asher's father make every morning for breakfast?
(a) Toast.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Orange juice.
(d) Scrambled eggs.

9. What are the Shabbos songs called?
(a) Krias shema.
(b) Torah.
(c) Mishnah.
(d) Zemiros.

10. Of all the drawings Asher makes for the mashpia, which person does he not draw?
(a) Aryeh.
(b) The Rebbe.
(c) Rivkeh.
(d) Yudel Krinsky.

11. Where does Asher insist on staying while his parents go to Europe?
(a) His bedroom.
(b) His street.
(c) The United States.
(d) The New York area.

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

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

14. What college does Rivkeh enter?
(a) Yeshiva College.
(b) New York University.
(c) Columbia University.
(d) Brooklyn College.

15. Yudel Krinsky describes Siberia as the home of which being?
(a) Abraham.
(b) The Angel of Death.
(c) The angel Michael.
(d) Stalin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character's unexpected death causes Rivkeh to fall into a serious depression?

2. Where does Asher's aunt Leah live?

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

4. Asher begins to experience his art more deeply when what part of him changes?

5. Yudel Krinsky describes which place as "a city of cafes and waltzes"?

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