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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. For how much do Asher's small paintings sell?
(a) $35,000.
(b) $3,000.
(c) $200.
(d) $1,000.

5. In Chapter 12, Rivkeh asks Asher several times if what type of painting will appear in his shows?
(a) Portraits of people they know.
(b) Abstract impressionism.
(c) Nudes.
(d) Crucifixions.

6. What type of artists did Jacob Kahn know in Paris?
(a) Impressionists.
(b) Cubists.
(c) Fauves.
(d) Abstract artists.

7. One art critic describes Asher's work as having a "menacing affinity" for what?
(a) "Chagallian excesses."
(b) "Picassoid forms."
(c) The macabre.
(d) The absurd.

8. In Chapter 13, after having viewed the Pieta, Asher draws a man surrounded by what?
(a) Pigeons.
(b) Mud.
(c) Sea gulls.
(d) Fallen leaves.

9. In Chapter 8 while Jacob Kahn is beginning to teach Asher to be an artist, he draws a pen-and-ink drawing of what subject?
(a) His home neighborhood.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) Asher.
(d) A still life.

10. Jacob Kahn describes Asher as "too religious" to be which type of artist?
(a) Fauve.
(b) Cubist.
(c) Impressionist.
(d) Abstract Expressionist.

11. What day is it when Asher and Aryeh have the discussion about blindness and about the technical language of the critics?
(a) Tuesday.
(b) Monday.
(c) Shabbos.
(d) Yom Kippur.

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

13. In Chapter 14, Asher visits which character who has been ill?
(a) Jacob Kahn.
(b) The mashpia.
(c) Mrs. Rackover.
(d) Rivkeh Lev.

14. In Chapter 11, Asher describes Jacob Kahn's show as which type of "affair"?
(a) Black-tie.
(b) Raucous.
(c) Humdrum.
(d) Informal.

15. Where does Asher want to go after graduating?
(a) Columbia University.
(b) Europe.
(c) Medical school.
(d) Seattle.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 11, Asher mentions that which character has passed away?

2. In Chapter 14 when Asher cannot find his parents, where are they?

3. Asher's first original creation in Jacob Kahn's studio is in what medium?

4. In which European city does Asher decide to stay for a year or two?

5. Asher accuses Aryeh of being blind in which way?

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