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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. Where is Asher in the beginning of Chapter 13?
2. Where does Asher want to go after graduating?
3. When the reviewers attack the Brooklyn Crucifixions, Anna Schaeffer calls them what name?
4. In Chapter 11, Asher describes Jacob Kahn's show as which type of "affair"?
5. Jacob Kahn describes Asher as "too religious" to be which type of artist?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Jacob Kahn say about the first painting Asher creates of his enemy classmate?
2. Describe the reactions of Aryeh and Rivkeh when Asher announces that he plans to spend the summer in Europe.
3. 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?
4. How does Asher describe the difference between a naked woman and a nude?
5. What types of paintings does Jacob Kahn emphasize in his trips with Asher to the Metropolitan Museum of Art? Why?
6. What does Asher draw for his enemy classmate? Describe the picture.
7. At the end of Chapter 8, where is Aryeh?
8. Describe the Brooklyn Crucifixions.
9. Which four people from the Bible does the Pieta portray?
10. How does Jacob Kahn talk to God?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Do you think that Asher's decision to become an artist is something he could have escaped, if he had wished? Do you think that his decision causes him to lead a more fulfilled or a less fulfilled life?
Essay Topic 2
When Asher hears about the conditions in which Russian Jews are living, he feels the need to ask Yudel Krinsky many questions about Siberia. The answers to these questions contribute to Asher's growing fear of leaving his Brooklyn street. Write an essay that describes what is happening in Russia and Siberia during the time of this novel, including as many of the novel's details as you can remember, and compare and contrast the characters' reaction to those evens. For example, how does Aryeh's reaction differ from Asher's? With whose opinion do you most sympathize?
Essay Topic 3
Describe Anna Schaeffer's role in Asher's life. How do you feel about the way her employees arrive at Asher's apartment, carry away his paintings, and don't let him see them again until the show?
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