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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Judging by Gimpel's description, how is Elka's current living situation?
(a) Very poor.
(b) Very wealthy.
(c) Very clean.
(d) Very dusty.

2. What does Elka do ten times a day?
(a) Eat.
(b) Threaten to divorce Gimpel.
(c) Tell Gimpel how much she loves him.
(d) Pray.

3. What is Gimpel's response to Elka's wedding night claims?
(a) He is resolute on being celibate.
(b) He likes the idea of having two houses.
(c) He has a headache too.
(d) Elka had the ritual bath yesterday, which happens after her monthly is over.

4. What happens four months after Gimpel and Elka get married?
(a) Elka miscarries.
(b) They get divorced.
(c) Elka gets pregnant.
(d) Elka gives birth.

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

6. What is Gimpel's defense against being called foolish?
(a) He likes jokes.
(b) He is stupid.
(c) He can't tell when people are kidding.
(d) Everything is possible.

7. What festivities occurred at Gimpel and Elka's wedding?
(a) Poker and Yahtzee were played.
(b) None--no one came to the wedding.
(c) Drinking, singing and dancing.
(d) Eating contests.

8. Does Gimpel believe Elka's story about the child?
(a) He isn't sure.
(b) Yes.
(c) Yes, but he knows he can't tell fact from fiction, so really no.
(d) No.

9. What story does Elka tell Gimpel in an attempt to convince him that the child is his?
(a) Elka's grandmother, whom she resembles, carried for the same short amount of time.
(b) Gimpel was drunk one night nine months ago and came to visit her.
(c) The child has Gimpel's nose and ears.
(d) An angel came to Elka in a dream and told her she would be the mother to the second coming of Christ.

10. When does Gimpel receive his nickname?
(a) He doesn't have a nickname.
(b) As a baby.
(c) When he is a schoolboy.
(d) As an adult.

11. As a joke, what do the townspeople tell Gimpel has happened to his parents?
(a) They are in debt and have sold him to the farmer.
(b) They have risen from the dead and are looking for him.
(c) They have died.
(d) They have moved to another town and left Gimpel behind.

12. What does the Rabbi eventually allow Gimpel to do?
(a) Go back to work.
(b) Remarry.
(c) Send bread and money to Elka.
(d) Eat everything he wants.

13. How does Gimpel begin to feel about Elka?
(a) He loves her.
(b) He is ambivalent.
(c) He ignores her.
(d) He hates her.

14. What evidence does Gimpel give that the child is not his?
(a) Gimpel is infertile.
(b) The child was born 17 weeks after their wedding.
(c) Gimpel and Elka had not had sex.
(d) The child looks nothing like him.

15. The morning after talking with the Rabbi, what does Gimpel say after he arrives at his destination?
(a) He has made a mistake.
(b) He is happy to be in a new place.
(c) He is in love with Elka and will never leave.
(d) He is hungry and needs bread.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Gimpel hints that Elka has fooled him, how does Elka respond?

2. Who is the child named after?

3. What does Gimpel see in his bed next to Elka?

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

5. What is the first thing Gimpel says about himself?

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