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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Yente hands a letter to Tzeitel, what else does she say?
(a) Golde insulted her.
(b) Tevye owes her money.
(c) Perchik will never return to Hodel.
(d) She often spots Chava and Fyedka together.

2. Despite Golde's protests, what does Tevye decide about Chava?
(a) She's better off with Fyedka.
(b) There is nothing he can do to convince her to come home.
(c) She's too stubborn to reason with.
(d) She is dead to them now.

3. When the rabbi arrives at Motel's shop where practically the entire village is gathered, everyone asks him if there is a blessing for what?
(a) A colorful baby blanket.
(b) A sewing machine.
(c) A new dress.
(d) A flower shop.

4. From the letter Yente picks up and delivers to Tzeitel, everyone learns that Perchik ________________.
(a) Has been arrested.
(b) Is working as a spy.
(c) Will be gone for years.
(d) Has become a professor.

5. As Tevye sits and talks to God after Tzeitel and Motel are married, what does he request?
(a) A grandchild.
(b) A wife for Lazar.
(c) Peace in their village.
(d) A sewing machine for Motel.

6. Who helps the elderly rabbi to the table?
(a) Fyedka.
(b) Perchik.
(c) Chava.
(d) Mendel.

7. Before Perchik proposes to Hodel, he says that marriage must be founded on ______________.
(a) Love and devotion.
(b) Trust.
(c) Mutual beliefs.
(d) Friendship.

8. Inside Motel's shop, the villagers are gathered to see ______________.
(a) The used sewing machine that just arrived.
(b) Tzeitel's new dress.
(c) Motel and Tzeitel's new flower stand.
(d) Motel and Tzeitel's new baby.

9. When gossip started by Yente spreads like wildfire, changing along the way, the village blames the supposed woes befalling Tevye's family upon _____________.
(a) Tevye's daughters growing in independence.
(b) Tzeitel refusing to accept the match with Lazar.
(c) The fact that everyone danced together at the wedding.
(d) The growing revolution.

10. Long after Tzeitel's wedding, upon hearing of big news, the villagers trade _______________.
(a) Condolences.
(b) Insults.
(c) Mazeltovs.
(d) Gasps.

11. Why is one of Tevye's daughters going to Siberia?
(a) Perchik has been arrested and Hodel wants to go help him.
(b) Chava is running away to marry Fyedka.
(c) Tzeitel is going to ask for financial help from a relative there.
(d) The youngest will be going to school there.

12. Fyedka comes to Motel's shop, picks up a shirt, and offers congratulations. When he leaves the shop, who discreetly follows Fyedka?
(a) Tzeitel.
(b) Motel.
(c) Chava.
(d) Golde.

13. Through Tevye's conversation with God, what do we learn about Tzeitel and Motel after their wedding?
(a) They're desperately struggling to get by.
(b) They're happy despite living in poverty.
(c) They're having trouble in their marriage.
(d) Lazar won't leave them alone.

14. 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 troubles.
(b) His anger at the Russians.
(c) His anger at his daughters.
(d) His blessings.

15. The villagers want to know if Tevye has seen the constable because they heard rumors about _______________.
(a) Soldiers marching to their village.
(b) An increase in their taxes.
(c) The death of the Tsar.
(d) An edict in St. Petersburg.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Golde and Tevye prepare to leave their village, Golde is sad that Hodel and Perchik are not with them. Tevye tells her that ______________.

2. As the pair sits together at the railroad station ________________.

3. As Yente and other women of the village gossip, the story keeps changing. By the end of their gossiping, everyone mistakenly thinks that who has been arrested?

4. When Chava tries to talk to Tevye about the feelings she and Fyedka have for each other, Tevye says it would make him happy if _______________.

5. When Hodel prepares to marry Perchik, Tevye worries that there will be no one to perform a proper marriage. Hodel assures him that _______________.

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