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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. In Chapter 14, Asher helps which person shovel snow?
(a) Mrs. Rackover.
(b) The Rebbe.
(c) Yudel Krinsky.
(d) The mashpia.
2. Anna Schaeffer describes which character as her "Brooklyn prodigy"?
(a) Asher.
(b) Picasso.
(c) Jacob Kahn.
(d) Yitzchok Lev.
3. Where does Jacob Kahn live?
(a) The Bronx.
(b) Upper Manhattan.
(c) Queens.
(d) Brooklyn.
4. What does Jacob Kahn call the man who talks to them about the art market in Tokyo?
(a) A whore.
(b) Naive.
(c) Obnoxious.
(d) A shark.
5. According to Asher, which group of people first painted nudes?
(a) The Egyptians.
(b) The Greeks.
(c) The Mesopotamians.
(d) The French.
Short Answer Questions
1. What type of artists did Jacob Kahn know in Paris?
2. What biblical book does Asher read on the holiday of Tisha b'Av?
3. Where do Asher and Avraham Cutler go in Montmartre?
4. Where does Asher want to go after graduating?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Aryeh look like in Chapter 12, after Rivkeh has spent several years with him in Europe?
2. Why does the Rebbe want Asher to study Russian?
3. What does Asher do for the summer while Jacob Kahn campaigns for Kennedy?
4. In Chapter 13, Asher's understanding of his mythic ancestor changes. What does Asher realize about him?
5. Which four people from the Bible does the Pieta portray?
6. Describe how Jacob Kahn looks in Chapter 14.
7. How does Asher describe the difference between a naked woman and a nude?
8. 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?
9. How does Jacob Kahn respond when Asher asks him if the artist he had just visited was happy?
10. Describe how Anna Schaeffer looks.
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