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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does Jacob Kahn take Asher for the summer?
2. Asher copies which painting as a gift for the classmate who teases him?
3. While in Europe, what does Asher receive in the mail from Anna Schaeffer?
4. In Chapter 8, Aryeh disappears without a trace for a while, but in the beginning of Chapter 9, he sends Rivkeh and Asher a telegram from which city?
5. Where do Asher and Jacob Kahn go to view a Van Gogh exhibit?
Short Essay Questions
1. Which four people from the Bible does the Pieta portray?
2. What does Aryeh look like in Chapter 12, after Rivkeh has spent several years with him in Europe?
3. What objects does Asher notice in his parents' bedroom?
4. What is Asher's strongest memory of his first art show?
5. How does Jacob Kahn talk to God?
6. What does Rivkeh learn from a professor at her university about Jacob Kahn?
7. What types of paintings does Jacob Kahn emphasize in his trips with Asher to the Metropolitan Museum of Art? Why?
8. What does Asher draw for his enemy classmate? Describe the picture.
9. What is the illness that forces Jacob Kahn into bed for a few days?
10. What does Jacob Kahn say about the first painting Asher creates of his enemy classmate?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Jacob Kahn feels that it is necessary for Asher to learn to paint nudes. What do you think Asher's artistic education would have lost without learning to paint nudes? What value is there in that activity? Explain.
Essay Topic 2
"Vocation" is a word that describes one's choice of career as a way to fulfill one's personhood. This novel heavily emphasizes vocation as a way to follow God. Compare and contrast Aryeh's choice to travel for the Rebbe with Asher's choice to become an artist. Do you think they choose appropriate vocations to express who they are on the inside? Explain.
Essay Topic 3
Aryeh Lev risks his health and at times his life to help bring Russian Jews to safety, even though Rivkeh and Asher worry about him intensely. Do you think Aryeh makes a wise decision to travel abroad for the Rebbe, or do you think he would have been wiser to stay in Brooklyn? Write your idea of what might have happened if Aryeh had stayed in Brooklyn during Asher's artistically formative years.
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