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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. Jacob Kahn compares his sculpting of Asher to which famous piece of art?

2. What is the setting of the beginning of Chapter 14?

3. In Chapter 9, Jacob Kahn travels to see an art show in which city?

4. In which university does Rivkeh teach Russian affairs?

5. What does Jacob Kahn call the man who talks to them about the art market in Tokyo?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rivkeh learn from a professor at her university about Jacob Kahn?

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

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

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

5. How does Asher describe the difference between a naked woman and a nude?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Anna Schaeffer's role in Asher's life. How do you feel about the way her employees arrive at Asher's apartment, carry away his paintings, and don't let him see them again until the show?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Do you think that Asher's decision to become an artist is something he could have escaped, if he had wished? Do you think that his decision causes him to lead a more fulfilled or a less fulfilled life?

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