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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of refreshments do they have at Asher's last show?
(a) Smorgasbord.
(b) Wine and cheese.
(c) Coffee and cookies.
(d) Kosher food.

2. Jacob Kahn compares his sculpting of Asher to which famous piece of art?
(a) The Mona Lisa.
(b) The Sistine Chapel.
(c) American Gothic.
(d) The David.

3. Jacob Kahn warns Asher not to become a whore due to which part of Asher's dress?
(a) His designer t-shirts.
(b) His tefillin.
(c) His payos (earlocks).
(d) His beret.

4. In Chapter 9, Jacob Kahn travels to see an art show in which city?
(a) Paris.
(b) Cairo.
(c) Istanbul.
(d) London.

5. After word has gotten around about the Brooklyn Crucifixions, where does the Rebbe ask Asher to live?
(a) Paris.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) Florence.

6. What language does the Rebbe encourage Asher to study in college?
(a) German.
(b) Russian.
(c) Arabic.
(d) Greek.

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

8. 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.

9. Aryeh notes that someone in Florence thought he belonged to which religious group?
(a) Hinduism.
(b) Catholicism.
(c) Greek Orthodoxy.
(d) Islam.

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

11. Which college does Asher plan to attend?
(a) Columbia.
(b) New York University.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Brooklyn College.

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

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

14. In the beginning of Chapter 12, Aryeh and Rivkeh share a private joke over which of Rivkeh's habits?
(a) Forgetting where she has laid her book.
(b) Biting her fingernails.
(c) Tapping her fingertips on the table.
(d) Waiting at windows.

15. What does Jacob Kahn call the man who talks to them about the art market in Tokyo?
(a) Obnoxious.
(b) A shark.
(c) Naive.
(d) A whore.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jacob Kahn's wife's name?

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

3. Where do Asher and Jacob Kahn go to view a Van Gogh exhibit?

4. In Chapter 13, after having viewed the Pieta, Asher draws a man surrounded by what?

5. Jacob Kahn takes Asher to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to look at various paintings of which subject?

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