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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. In the evenings during the summer, which street do Asher and Jacob Kahn often walk on?

2. Jacob Kahn warns Asher not to become a whore due to which part of Asher's dress?

3. What type of artists did Jacob Kahn know in Paris?

4. While wandering alone through Manhattan, Asher visits whose art gallery?

5. In which university does Rivkeh teach Russian affairs?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Jacob Kahn talk to God?

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

4. Describe how Anna Schaeffer looks.

5. How does Asher describe the difference between a naked woman and a nude?

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

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

8. How do the strangers at the art show react to the Brooklyn Crucifixions?

9. What is Asher's strongest memory of his first art show?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

"Vocation" is a word that describes one's choice of career as a way to fulfill one's personhood. This novel heavily emphasizes vocation as a way to follow God. Compare and contrast Aryeh's choice to travel for the Rebbe with Asher's choice to become an artist. Do you think they choose appropriate vocations to express who they are on the inside? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Jacob Kahn feels that it is necessary for Asher to learn to paint nudes. What do you think Asher's artistic education would have lost without learning to paint nudes? What value is there in that activity? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Why does Asher have to move to Paris after his community sees the Brooklyn Crucifixions? Do you think Asher was right to leave Brooklyn, or do you think he should have publicly defended his work? Why?

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