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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Gimpel comes home over the weekends, what does Elka do?
(a) Shower Gimpel wih love.
(b) Cook Gimpel's favorite meals.
(c) Leave the house.
(d) Make excuses to avoid sex.

2. What happens when the sexton announces the birth of Gimpel's child at the synagogue?
(a) Gimpel is deafened with sobbing.
(b) The congregation cheers.
(c) There is silence.
(d) The House of Prayer rings with laughter.

3. What does Elka give birth to?
(a) A Boy.
(b) A Girl.
(c) Twins.
(d) A Hermaphrodite.

4. What does Gimpel say most men would do in his situation?
(a) Work more.
(b) Demand more sex from his wife.
(c) Take French leave and disappear.
(d) Sleep more.

5. When people glare at the child, what does Gimpel do?
(a) Punches the glaring person in the mouth.
(b) Gets the child an abracadabra.
(c) Tells the child to get used to it, for the child is a bastard.
(d) Soothes the child with coos and words of love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What honor and ritual is Gimpel responsible for at the birth celebration?

2. What wedding gift made Gimpel suspicious?

3. Instead of raisins, what do the other children put in Gimpel's hand?

4. How does Elka look when Gimpel visits her home?

5. Traditionally, what were husbands supposed to do while their wives were in childbirth?

(see the answer key)

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