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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While at Jacob Kahn's vacation home, what type of bird does Asher watch and paint frequently?
(a) Robin.
(b) Gull.
(c) Pigeon.
(d) Sparrow.

2. While wandering alone through Manhattan, Asher visits whose art gallery?
(a) The Rebbe's.
(b) Jacob Kahn's.
(c) Anna Schaeffer's.
(d) Picasso's.

3. At the very end of Chapter 13, to which city does Asher travel?
(a) Paris.
(b) Minneapolis.
(c) New York City.
(d) Florence.

4. Where did Jacob Kahn first meet Anna Schaeffer?
(a) West Berlin.
(b) Montreal.
(c) Paris.
(d) Kiev.

5. In which European city does Asher decide to stay for a year or two?
(a) Belfast.
(b) Lisbon.
(c) Florence.
(d) Paris.

6. What is the title of the book Rivkeh's professor gives to Asher?
(a) Russian Art Through the Centuries.
(b) The Art Spirit.
(c) Great Jewish Artists.
(d) A Biography of Picasso.

7. In the Brooklyn Crucifixions, what structure forms the crucifix?
(a) Telephone poles.
(b) Lightning.
(c) A Venetian blind.
(d) A tree.

8. Asher copies which painting as a gift for the classmate who teases him?
(a) The Mona Lisa.
(b) Michelangelo's Last Judgment.
(c) Titian's The Sacrifice of Abraham.
(d) Van Gogh's Starry Night.

9. In Chapter 14 when Asher cannot find his parents, where are they?
(a) Vienna.
(b) Out to dinner at a kosher restaurant.
(c) The subway.
(d) The University of Chicago.

10. To whom is Jacob Kahn referring when he mentions the "old Spaniard"?
(a) Don Quixote.
(b) Matisse.
(c) Francisco Franco.
(d) Picasso.

11. While in Europe, what does Asher receive in the mail from Anna Schaeffer?
(a) A box of cookies.
(b) A beret.
(c) An irate letter.
(d) An envelope full of cash.

12. Where does Jacob Kahn live?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Queens.
(c) Upper Manhattan.
(d) The Bronx.

13. In Paris, Jacob Kahn worked with which famous artist?
(a) Chagall.
(b) Picasso.
(c) Matisse.
(d) Van Gogh.

14. Anna Schaeffer describes which character as her "Brooklyn prodigy"?
(a) Picasso.
(b) Jacob Kahn.
(c) Yitzchok Lev.
(d) Asher.

15. Jacob Kahn takes Asher to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to look at various paintings of which subject?
(a) Nudes.
(b) Portraits.
(c) The madonna and child.
(d) The crucifixion.

Short Answer Questions

1. In admiring Asher's first work of art in the Kahn studio, Jacob Kahn calls the work what?

2. Where does Asher want to go after graduating?

3. In Chapter 14, Asher visits which character who has been ill?

4. In Chapter 8, Aryeh disappears without a trace for a while, but in the beginning of Chapter 9, he sends Rivkeh and Asher a telegram from which city?

5. In the evenings during the summer, which street do Asher and Jacob Kahn often walk on?

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