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My Name is Asher Lev

Chaim Potok

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Who decides that Asher should undertake a more structured study of art after his Bar Mitzvah?

(A) His father

(B) The mashpia

(D) All of the above

Why does Asher's father leave home?

(A) He divorces his wife

(B) He goes crazy

(D) He goes to Vienna to work for the Rebbe

Why does Rivkeh go to college

(A) To complete the work of her dead brother

(B) To help the financially strapped Lev family

(D) To serve as a better role model for Asher

How does Asher first come to possess oil paints?

(A) His mother buys them for him

(B) He buys them with money he earns

(D) He finds them on the street

What foreign country is the object of Asher's fascination when he is younger?

(A) Canada

(B) Russia

(D) Austria

What does Asher do the summer before entering High School

(A) Paint in Provincetown with Jacob Kahn

(B) Go to Europe with his parents

(D) Study Torah with the Rebbe

The inclusion of which types of paintings in Asher's art show particularly annoys his father?

(A) Crucifixions

(B) Abstract

(D) All of the above

How does Asher's mother encourage her son's artistic work?

(A) She buys him oil paints

(B) She takes him to the museum

(D) All of the above

Why, during the summer in Provincetown, does Jacob tell Asher he is beginning to become a whore?

(A) Asher paints portraits for money

(B) Asher violates the Sabbath

(D) Asher puts his earlocks behind his ears

What is Asher's father's job

(A) Emissary of the Rebbe

(B) Lawyer

(D) University Professor

Who is Yudel Krinsky?

(A) The Mashpia

(B) A boy in school who tortures Asher

(D) Asher's favorite artist

Where does Asher grow up?

(A) Vienna

(B) Providence

(D) Brooklyn

Where does Asher have his art shows?

(A) The Rebbe's office

(B) Jacob Kahn's house in Provincetown

(D) The New York City subway system

Where in Europe does Asher live for a year?

(A) Florence

(B) Paris

(D) Vienna

What happens as a result of Asher showing his Crucifixion paintings?

(A) His parents kill themselves

(B) He is asked to leave Brooklyn

(D) He is banished from the art world

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