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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which museum do Rivkeh and Asher visit together?
(a) The Brooks Museum.
(b) The Brooklyn Museum.
(c) The Smithsonian.
(d) The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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

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

6. 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 box of stationery.
(c) A notebook and a pencil.
(d) A pen.

7. Asher begins to experience his art more deeply when what part of him changes?
(a) His eyes.
(b) His heart.
(c) His fingers.
(d) His brain.

8. Asher Lev introduces himself as being the painter of which great painting?
(a) Brooklyn Crucifixion.
(b) Crucifixion at Dawn.
(c) Pieta.
(d) David.

9. At the end of Chapter 3, Asher unwittingly draws a picture in his notebook of whom?
(a) The Rebbe.
(b) Hitler.
(c) His mythic ancestor.
(d) Stalin.

10. When Rivkeh is worried for Aryeh's safety, to which relative does she cry out?
(a) Yaakov.
(b) Yitzchok Lev.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Leah.

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

12. In Chapter 6, Rivkeh brings Asher a significant gift of all the necessary items for which activity?
(a) Sculpting.
(b) Sketching in color.
(c) Blowing glass.
(d) Oil painting.

13. Who killed Aryeh's father?
(a) An American soldier.
(b) Stalin.
(c) A rich Russian landowner.
(d) A peasant who was drunk.

14. In Chapter 6, in order to please Aryeh, Asher begins to put energy into learning which two subjects?
(a) Hebrew and zemiros.
(b) Torah and mathematics.
(c) English and Hebrew.
(d) Talmud and Bible.

15. Asher requests to live with which character while Aryeh and Rivkeh are in Europe?
(a) The mashpia.
(b) Yudel Krinsky.
(c) Yitzchok Lev.
(d) Jacob Kahn.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Asher go after school when Aryeh is out of town?

3. What maintained observant Judaism in Russia during the years before World War II?

4. What are the Shabbos songs called?

5. Of whom does Asher frequently dream?

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