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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jacob Kahn's wife's name?
(a) Natasha.
(b) Tanya.
(c) Zlata.
(d) Anastasia.

2. Where does Asher have his first experience of painting a nude?
(a) An art class at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(b) In school.
(c) At home.
(d) Jacob Kahn's studio.

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

4. Which subject shows up on Asher's schedule without his having requested it?
(a) Civics.
(b) French.
(c) Algebra.
(d) Russian.

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

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

7. Where do Asher's parents eat after the show?
(a) Their apartment.
(b) A restaurant.
(c) Yitzchok Lev's house.
(d) Yudel Krinsky's store.

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

9. At the show, Jacob Kahn tells Asher that he wishes he had whose "gall"?
(a) The Rebbe's.
(b) Picasso's.
(c) Chagall's.
(d) Moses's.

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

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

12. According to Asher, which group of people first painted nudes?
(a) The French.
(b) The Egyptians.
(c) The Greeks.
(d) The Mesopotamians.

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

14. According to Asher while he is talking with Aryeh in Chapter 14, who buys his paintings?
(a) Wealthy families.
(b) Schools.
(c) Collectors.
(d) Synagogues.

15. Asher accuses Aryeh of being blind in which way?
(a) Socially.
(b) Aesthetically.
(c) Morally.
(d) Theologically.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city does Jacob Kahn describe as a "gift"?

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

3. In Chapter 13, what does Asher mention having for lunch regularly?

4. Who is Avraham Cutler's father?

5. When Jacob Kahn is demanding that Asher consider a different vocation, he describes art as what?

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