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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. At Jacob Kahn's vacation home, in which part of the house does Asher live?
(a) The basement.
(b) A sun porch.
(c) The attic.
(d) The studio.

2. What is Jacob Kahn's wife's name?
(a) Zlata.
(b) Tanya.
(c) Anastasia.
(d) Natasha.

3. What does Jacob Kahn call the man who talks to them about the art market in Tokyo?
(a) A whore.
(b) A shark.
(c) Naive.
(d) Obnoxious.

4. Where does Jacob Kahn take Asher for the summer?
(a) Myrtle Beach.
(b) The Berkshires.
(c) Paris.
(d) Provincetown.

5. Which college does Asher plan to attend?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Columbia.
(c) Brooklyn College.
(d) New York University.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting of the beginning of Chapter 14?

2. Jacob Kahn states that all paintings fall into one of which two categories?

3. In Chapter 10, which museum do Jacob Kahn and Asher visit together?

4. Who is Avraham Cutler's father?

5. In admiring Asher's first work of art in the Kahn studio, Jacob Kahn calls the work what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Jacob Kahn talk to God?

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

6. What does Rivkeh learn from a professor at her university about Jacob Kahn?

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

8. What is the illness that forces Jacob Kahn into bed for a few days?

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

10. In Chapter 13, Asher's understanding of his mythic ancestor changes. What does Asher realize about him?

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