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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Asher enters the Rebbe's office, what is the first question the Rebbe asks?
(a) "How are you?"
(b) "Is school going well?"
(c) "How is your mother?"
(d) "How is your father?"

2. After feeling unable to correctly tint the shadows of Rivkeh's cheek with a pencil, Asher uses what object to create the color of shadow?
(a) Charcoal.
(b) Melted chocolate.
(c) A cigarette.
(d) Sand.

3. After looking at what was left on his chair in the Rebbe's waiting room, Asher draws a picture and dates it using which calendar style?
(a) European.
(b) Jewish.
(c) Russian.
(d) English.

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

5. In order to go to Europe, Asher has to go downtown to obtain which type of document?
(a) A Social Security card.
(b) A birth certificate.
(c) A passport.
(d) A plane ticket.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the beginning of Chapter 5, Asher draws a picture of the burning of which building?

2. The Rebbe gives Asher permission to follow which vocation?

3. Where does Asher's aunt Leah live?

4. Which character does not want to leave Brooklyn to go to Europe?

5. Yudel Krinsky begins to work in a store that sells what type of merchandise?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Asher first meets Jacob Kahn, what advice does Jacob give him concerning becoming an artist?

2. Compare Aryeh's reaction to Stalin's death with Yudel Krinsky's reaction.

3. Why does Rivkeh want to enter the university?

4. In Chapter 6 as Rivkeh and Asher adjust to life on their own, Rivkeh begins to talk about her grief over Yaakov's death. Which people in her life died prematurely, and how did she feel when that happened?

5. Why doesn't Asher want to go to Vienna?

6. Explain the Rebbe's opinion of Asher's desire to be an artist.

7. Yudel Krinsky mentions several differences between Russia and the United States. What is one difference?

8. Where does the Lev family spend their summers? What do they do there?

9. What happens to the Russian writers? How do the Levs react?

10. Out of a deep longing to learn to use oil paints, Asher steals several tubes of oil paint and several brushes from Yudel Krinsky's store. What does he do with them? Why do you think he does this?

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