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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the book Rivkeh's professor gives to Asher?
(a) Russian Art Through the Centuries.
(b) Great Jewish Artists.
(c) A Biography of Picasso.
(d) The Art Spirit.

2. Jacob Kahn states that all paintings fall into one of which two categories?
(a) Impressionism and realism.
(b) Geometry and a flower.
(c) Love and hate.
(d) Life and death.

3. Jacob Kahn describes Asher as "too religious" to be which type of artist?
(a) Cubist.
(b) Fauve.
(c) Impressionist.
(d) Abstract Expressionist.

4. What city does Jacob Kahn describe as a "gift"?
(a) Athens.
(b) Beirut.
(c) Vicenza.
(d) Florence.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At Jacob Kahn's vacation home, in which part of the house does Asher live?

2. At the very end of Chapter 13, to which city does Asher travel?

3. While in Europe, what does Asher receive in the mail from Anna Schaeffer?

4. Which college does Asher plan to attend?

5. Asher copies which painting as a gift for the classmate who teases him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the person with whom Asher stays in Florence.

2. Describe Asher's surroundings while he lives with Jacob Kahn in Provincetown.

3. What does Aryeh look like in Chapter 12, after Rivkeh has spent several years with him in Europe?

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

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

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

7. Describe how Anna Schaeffer looks.

8. How does Jacob Kahn respond when Asher asks him if the artist he had just visited was happy?

9. How does the Rav Dorochoff react to Asher's calling him in the middle of the night?

10. 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?

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