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

2. On what day of the week does Asher visit Jacob Kahn?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Wednesday.
(c) Friday.
(d) Sunday.

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

4. 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) A still life.
(c) Asher.
(d) His home neighborhood.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Asher move when Rivkeh goes to Europe to be with Aryeh?

2. Aryeh notes that someone in Florence thought he belonged to which religious group?

3. Where does Asher fly with Jacob Kahn to see a Matisse exhibition?

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

5. What language does the Rebbe encourage Asher to study in college?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 13, Asher's understanding of his mythic ancestor changes. What does Asher realize about him?

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

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

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

7. Why does the Rebbe want Asher to study Russian?

8. At the end of Chapter 8, where is Aryeh?

9. Describe the Brooklyn Crucifixions.

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

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