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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. 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) Waiting at windows.
(c) Tapping her fingertips on the table.
(d) Biting her fingernails.

2. Aryeh makes the statement that which type of people take art very seriously?
(a) Art critics.
(b) Goyim.
(c) Newspaper writers.
(d) Americans.

3. Where do Asher and Jacob Kahn go to view a Van Gogh exhibit?
(a) Boston.
(b) Toronto.
(c) Pittsburgh.
(d) Philadelphia.

4. In which university does Rivkeh teach Russian affairs?
(a) Brooklyn College.
(b) Columbia University.
(c) Bronx University.
(d) New York University.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jacob Kahn take Asher for the summer?

2. Aryeh notes that someone in Florence thought he belonged to which religious group?

3. Where did Jacob Kahn first meet Anna Schaeffer?

4. Besides learning art, what does Asher learn from Jacob Kahn in Chapter 10?

5. In Chapter 12, Rivkeh asks Asher several times if what type of painting will appear in his shows?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Asher's surroundings while he lives with Jacob Kahn in Provincetown.

2. Which four people from the Bible does the Pieta portray?

3. Describe the sculpture that Jacob Kahn specifically keeps for himself in Chapter 11, purportedly at his wife's request.

4. Why does Jacob Kahn say that Asher is becoming a whore?

5. Describe the Brooklyn Crucifixions.

6. What objects does Asher notice in his parents' bedroom?

7. Describe how Anna Schaeffer looks.

8. Why does Asher begin carrying messages for the Rebbe?

9. Why does the Rebbe want Asher to study Russian?

10. What does Asher do for the summer while Jacob Kahn campaigns for Kennedy?

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