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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. What biblical book does Asher read on the holiday of Tisha b'Av?
(a) Jonah.
(b) Psalms.
(c) Lamentations.
(d) Genesis.
2. 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.
3. What language does the Rebbe encourage Asher to study in college?
(a) Greek.
(b) German.
(c) Arabic.
(d) Russian.
4. In which university does Rivkeh teach Russian affairs?
(a) New York University.
(b) Brooklyn College.
(c) Bronx University.
(d) Columbia University.
5. What is the title of the book Rivkeh's professor gives to Asher?
(a) Great Jewish Artists.
(b) A Biography of Picasso.
(c) Russian Art Through the Centuries.
(d) The Art Spirit.
Short Answer Questions
1. What day is it when Asher and Aryeh have the discussion about blindness and about the technical language of the critics?
2. In Chapter 14 when Asher cannot find his parents, where are they?
3. Where does Jacob Kahn take Asher for the summer?
4. When Asher falls asleep in class, the teacher makes fun of him by calling him which name?
5. In Chapter 11, Asher describes Jacob Kahn's show as which type of "affair"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the illness that forces Jacob Kahn into bed for a few days?
2. What does Aryeh look like in Chapter 12, after Rivkeh has spent several years with him in Europe?
3. Describe Asher's surroundings while he lives with Jacob Kahn in Provincetown.
4. Which four people from the Bible does the Pieta portray?
5. How does Asher describe the difference between a naked woman and a nude?
6. What does Jacob Kahn say about the first painting Asher creates of his enemy classmate?
7. Why does Jacob Kahn say that Asher is becoming a whore?
8. Describe the person with whom Asher stays in Florence.
9. Describe how Anna Schaeffer looks.
10. What does Asher draw for his enemy classmate? Describe the picture.
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