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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Prologue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the start of Act 1, Scene 2, Tevye enters pulling a cart. He addresses God, asking what?
(a) When his daughters will marry.
(b) Why his life continues to be so difficult.
(c) Whose idea it was to make him a milkman.
(d) Where he can find the riches he wants.

2. When Yussel steps into Motel's shop to congratulate him for the upcoming wedding, what does Motel ask him?
(a) For advice.
(b) For a wedding hat.
(c) To lend him money.
(d) To please leave.

3. When Tevye talks to himself about Lazar, wondering whether or not to give permission for the marriage, he says that ______________.
(a) Lazar would make an excellent husband.
(b) This might be Tzeitel's only chance.
(c) He never really liked Lazar.
(d) Tzeitel would be fine with marrying the butcher.

4. When Tevye and Lazar meet to talk, what does Tevye think they're discussing?
(a) Buying Tevye's little milk cow.
(b) Purchasing Tevye's house.
(c) Going into business together.
(d) Increasing Lazar's milk order.

5. Some time after the wedding and the ruckus created by Russian soldiers, Tevye sits outside his home, talking to God. What does he start out talking about?
(a) His anger at his daughters.
(b) His anger at the Russians.
(c) His troubles.
(d) His blessings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Despite how the villagers feel about Motel and Tzeitel's upcoming wedding, what do they say to Motel?

2. When Golde finds Perchik teaching her younger daughters, what does she say?

3. Before Tevye arrives to talk with Lazar, the butcher orders what?

4. When Tevye sings "If I Were A Rich Man," he says that he'd build a house with one staircase going up, one going down, and the third _____________.

5. After teaching Tevye's daughters the story of Laban and Jacob, what does Perchik say is the moral of the story?

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