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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What job did Yudel Krinsky have in Russia?
(a) Selling paper and paints.
(b) Fixing furnaces.
(c) Making hatpins.
(d) Making brooches.

3. In which academic discipline does Aryeh have a master's degree?
(a) Political science.
(b) Russian history and culture.
(c) Jewish history.
(d) International business.

4. In what language does Asher's school teach religion classes?
(a) Yiddish.
(b) Russian.
(c) Hebrew.
(d) English.

5. Who stays in Brooklyn with Asher while Aryeh moves to Europe?
(a) Yitzchok Lev.
(b) The mashpia.
(c) Yudel Krinsky.
(d) Rivkeh.

6. Yudel Krinsky describes which place as "a city of cafes and waltzes"?
(a) Lisbon.
(b) Munich.
(c) Vienna.
(d) London.

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

8. On what subject matter does the mashpia teach?
(a) Jewish history.
(b) Ladover Hasidism.
(c) Russian language.
(d) Social studies.

9. Aryeh Lev is particularly concerned for the Jews of which country?
(a) Russia.
(b) France.
(c) East Germany.
(d) Italy.

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

11. Who takes care of the Lev family during Rivkeh's incapacitating depression?
(a) Asher.
(b) Yitzchok Lev's wife.
(c) Aryeh.
(d) Mrs. Rackover.

12. Jacob Kahn speaks with a slight accent from which country?
(a) England.
(b) Russia.
(c) Austria.
(d) South Africa.

13. Yudel Krinsky begins to work in a store that sells what type of merchandise?
(a) Clothing.
(b) Jewelry.
(c) Kosher baked goods.
(d) Stationery.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Jacob Kahn wears what type of facial hair?

3. On Shabbos afternoons, Aryeh returns to the synagogue alone in order to do what?

4. At the end of Chapter 6, three new Jewish families move to Asher's neighborhood from which country?

5. What does Asher steal in order to use the gift of his artistry?

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