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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. Where does Asher fly with Jacob Kahn to see a Matisse exhibition?
(a) Seattle.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Paris.

2. To whom is Jacob Kahn referring when he mentions the "old Spaniard"?
(a) Picasso.
(b) Francisco Franco.
(c) Don Quixote.
(d) Matisse.

3. In Chapter 14, Asher helps which person shovel snow?
(a) Mrs. Rackover.
(b) Yudel Krinsky.
(c) The mashpia.
(d) The Rebbe.

4. In Chapter 9, Jacob Kahn travels to see an art show in which city?
(a) London.
(b) Cairo.
(c) Istanbul.
(d) Paris.

5. Where does Asher want to go after graduating?
(a) Medical school.
(b) Columbia University.
(c) Europe.
(d) Seattle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jacob Kahn's wife's name?

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

3. For how much do Asher's small paintings sell?

4. One art critic describes Asher's work as having a "menacing affinity" for what?

5. What type of refreshments do they have at Asher's last show?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Jacob Kahn talk to God?

4. Describe how Anna Schaeffer looks.

5. What does Jacob Kahn say about the first painting Asher creates of his enemy classmate?

6. Describe the sculpture that Jacob Kahn specifically keeps for himself in Chapter 11, purportedly at his wife's request.

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

8. What types of paintings does Jacob Kahn emphasize in his trips with Asher to the Metropolitan Museum of Art? Why?

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

10. What objects does Asher notice in his parents' bedroom?

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