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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. How old is Aryeh at the beginning of Chapter 12?
(a) Fifty.
(b) Thirty-two.
(c) Fifty-five.
(d) Mid forties.
2. What biblical book does Asher read on the holiday of Tisha b'Av?
(a) Psalms.
(b) Jonah.
(c) Genesis.
(d) Lamentations.
3. Which biblical book does the matron of the hotel read continually?
(a) Proverbs.
(b) Deuteronomy.
(c) Genesis.
(d) Psalms.
4. In the evenings during the summer, which street do Asher and Jacob Kahn often walk on?
(a) Commercial Street.
(b) Main Street.
(c) Fifth Avenue.
(d) Elm Street.
5. Which college does Asher plan to attend?
(a) Brooklyn College.
(b) Harvard.
(c) New York University.
(d) Columbia.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Chapter 13, what does Asher mention having for lunch regularly?
2. What kind of hat does Asher wear?
3. One art critic describes Asher's work as having a "menacing affinity" for what?
4. In Chapter 8, Aryeh disappears without a trace for a while, but in the beginning of Chapter 9, he sends Rivkeh and Asher a telegram from which city?
5. In Paris, Jacob Kahn worked with which famous artist?
Short Essay Questions
1. Before meeting with Jacob Kahn for the first time, Asher receives an assignment from him to read a story from the New Testament. What is the story? How does Asher feel about reading it?
2. How does Jacob Kahn talk to God?
3. What does Jacob Kahn say about the first painting Asher creates of his enemy classmate?
4. What does Asher do for the summer while Jacob Kahn campaigns for Kennedy?
5. Which four people from the Bible does the Pieta portray?
6. What does Aryeh look like in Chapter 12, after Rivkeh has spent several years with him in Europe?
7. Describe how Anna Schaeffer looks.
8. What does Rivkeh learn from a professor at her university about Jacob Kahn?
9. Describe the sculpture that Jacob Kahn specifically keeps for himself in Chapter 11, purportedly at his wife's request.
10. How does Jacob Kahn respond when Asher asks him if the artist he had just visited was happy?
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