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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the dessert Asher wants the housekeeper to make?
2. In Chapter 2, Aryeh is greatly disturbed at the brutal deaths of which group of people?
3. Of all the drawings Asher makes for the mashpia, which person does he not draw?
4. 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?
5. In the first paragraph of Chapter 3, Aryeh announces the death of which world leader?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Asher miss his father so much on the first Shabbos without him?
2. What does the mashpia do at Asher's school?
3. In Chapter 1, Asher sometimes goes with Aryeh to the office. What does Aryeh do there, according to Asher?
4. 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?
5. When Asher first meets Jacob Kahn, what advice does Jacob give him concerning becoming an artist?
6. What does Asher know about his paternal grandfather?
7. What happens to the Russian writers? How do the Levs react?
8. Why does Rivkeh want to enter the university?
9. The mashpia talks with Asher about his behavior in school, such as his drawing the Rebbe in the Chumash. Then, he leaves Asher in the office with a notebook. What happens next?
10. Yudel Krinsky mentions several differences between Russia and the United States. What is one difference?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does religion affect the daily lives of the Lev family? Provide some examples of the way they think about God throughout the day, remembering to include a discussion of their activities, their conversation, and their world views.
Essay Topic 2
Describe the Rebbe's relationship with his people. How would you react if you had to ask a leader for permission to make important decisions? How do the Levs react to the Rebbe's wishes?
Essay Topic 3
Aryeh Lev risks his health and at times his life to help bring Russian Jews to safety, even though Rivkeh and Asher worry about him intensely. Do you think Aryeh makes a wise decision to travel abroad for the Rebbe, or do you think he would have been wiser to stay in Brooklyn? Write your idea of what might have happened if Aryeh had stayed in Brooklyn during Asher's artistically formative years.
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