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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Gimpel's objection to Elka's premarital requirement?
(a) He doesn't want to be celibate.
(b) He tells her it's the bride, not the groom, who offers a dowry.
(c) He tells her he already has a house built for them.
(d) He is allergic to dogs.

2. How are Elka's premarital demands met?
(a) Gimpel builds a new house.
(b) Gimpel buys a dog.
(c) Gimpel takes a mistress.
(d) The townspeople take up a collection.

3. After Gimpel enters his house, what does he hear?
(a) The baby crying.
(b) Elka fighting with his new girlfriend.
(c) Double snores.
(d) Elka sobbing.

4. When does Gimpel receive his nickname?
(a) He doesn't have a nickname.
(b) As a baby.
(c) As an adult.
(d) When he is a schoolboy.

5. What is Gimpel's reasoning for considering marrying Elka?
(a) "Waste not, want not."
(b) He has heard that she is very pretty.
(c) When you're married the husband is the master and if that's agreeable with her, it's agreeable to him too.
(d) He shouldn't be judgmental.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Gimpel and Elka have in common?

2. When Gimpel bluntly states that Elka has borne a bastard, what does Elka claim?

3. What does Elka give birth to?

4. What is Elka's response to Gimpel's evidence that the child is not his?

5. How does Gimpel begin to forget his sorrow?

(see the answer key)

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