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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the place where Aryeh goes regularly to have a ritual bath?
(a) The mashpia.
(b) The sitra achra.
(c) The synagogue.
(d) The mivkeh.

2. In Chapter 2, Rivkeh tells Asher about the ancient, tragic event of the burning of what city's library?
(a) Rome.
(b) Alexandria.
(c) Constantinople.
(d) Cairo.

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

4. By what name does the Lev family frequently call the Jewish God?
(a) Tallis.
(b) Torah.
(c) Krias Shema.
(d) Ribbono Shel Olom.

5. In Chapter 6, Asher remembers a conversation between himself as a toddler and Aryeh regarding which publication?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) The Enquirer.
(c) The Washington Post.
(d) Newsweek.

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

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

8. What instrument does the Rebbe use to make a loud noise on Rosh Hashonoh?
(a) A trombone.
(b) A tallis.
(c) A shofar.
(d) A whistle.

9. In Chapter 4, when Asher goes to Yudel Krinsky to ask him about Russian Jewish history, what is Yudel eating?
(a) Bagels and lox.
(b) Cookies and milk.
(c) Hard-boiled eggs and matzos.
(d) A Seder meal.

10. In the beginning of Chapter 5, Asher draws a picture of the burning of which building?
(a) The Parthenon.
(b) The Colosseum.
(c) Alexandria's library.
(d) The Louvre.

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

12. The next time Asher visits that museum, he makes sketches of the paintings that portray which person?
(a) Josephus.
(b) Moses.
(c) Stalin.
(d) Jesus.

13. In Chapter 2, Aryeh's travel becomes hindered by a snowstorm, leaving him stranded in which city?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Paris.
(c) Boston.
(d) London.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Simcha?

2. On what subject matter does the mashpia teach?

3. To which artist does Yitzchok Lev compare Asher?

4. What does the housekeeper feed Asher as a bedtime snack?

5. In her long weeks of studying and of waiting for Aryeh to return, Rivkeh picks up the habit of gnawing on what object?

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