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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Asher have his first experience of painting a nude?
(a) An art class at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(b) In school.
(c) At home.
(d) Jacob Kahn's studio.

2. In admiring Asher's first work of art in the Kahn studio, Jacob Kahn calls the work what?
(a) A "hand drawing."
(b) A masterpiece.
(c) An innovation.
(d) An "eye drawing."

3. At the show, Jacob Kahn tells Asher that he wishes he had whose "gall"?
(a) Chagall's.
(b) Picasso's.
(c) The Rebbe's.
(d) Moses's.

4. Who is Avraham Cutler's father?
(a) The Rebbe.
(b) Reuben Cutler.
(c) Yudel Krinsky.
(d) The mashpia.

5. When Asher falls asleep in class, the teacher makes fun of him by calling him which name?
(a) Michelangelo.
(b) Matisse.
(c) Sitra achra.
(d) Rembrandt.

6. One art critic describes Asher's work as having a "menacing affinity" for what?
(a) The absurd.
(b) "Chagallian excesses."
(c) The macabre.
(d) "Picassoid forms."

7. Asher copies which painting as a gift for the classmate who teases him?
(a) Michelangelo's Last Judgment.
(b) Van Gogh's Starry Night.
(c) The Mona Lisa.
(d) Titian's The Sacrifice of Abraham.

8. What method of creating art does Asher learn in Chapter 11?
(a) Glass blowing.
(b) Fresco.
(c) Sculpting.
(d) Papier mache.

9. What day is it when Asher and Aryeh have the discussion about blindness and about the technical language of the critics?
(a) Yom Kippur.
(b) Tuesday.
(c) Shabbos.
(d) Monday.

10. In Chapter 8 while Jacob Kahn is beginning to teach Asher to be an artist, he draws a pen-and-ink drawing of what subject?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) His home neighborhood.
(c) Asher.
(d) A still life.

11. Whom does Asher meet for the first time when he enters Jacob Kahn's apartment?
(a) Picasso.
(b) Anna Schaeffer.
(c) The mayor of New York City.
(d) Isaac Goldstein.

12. What type of refreshments do they have at Asher's last show?
(a) Wine and cheese.
(b) Coffee and cookies.
(c) Smorgasbord.
(d) Kosher food.

13. Jacob Kahn compares his sculpting of Asher to which famous piece of art?
(a) The Mona Lisa.
(b) American Gothic.
(c) The Sistine Chapel.
(d) The David.

14. In Chapter 13, after having viewed the Pieta, Asher draws a man surrounded by what?
(a) Mud.
(b) Fallen leaves.
(c) Pigeons.
(d) Sea gulls.

15. In Chapter 10, which museum do Jacob Kahn and Asher visit together?
(a) The Brooklyn Museum.
(b) The Chrysler Museum.
(c) The Smithsonian.
(d) The Louvre.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 9, Jacob Kahn encourages Asher to paint the full depth of his hatred for which person in his life?

2. In which European city does Asher decide to stay for a year or two?

3. What is the title of the book Rivkeh's professor gives to Asher?

4. In Chapter 11, where does Asher spend the month of July?

5. Jacob Kahn takes Asher to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to look at various paintings of which subject?

(see the answer keys)

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