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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Automatic Exemption, pp. 229-238, It Doesn't Pay to Be Good, pp. 238-.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Tevye related to Menachem Mendl?
(a) Mendl is married to his first cousin.
(b) Mendl is his nephew.
(c) They are third cousins.
(d) They are first cousins.

2. Who wrote a letter for the happy man from Kodny to take to the professor?
(a) The wealthy manor owners.
(b) His wife.
(c) His rabbi.
(d) His son.

3. After losing his fortune, what is Tevye's hope for the future?
(a) He completely foreswares money and doesn't think about it anymore.
(b) He hopes to have his fund reinstated and continue in his exact station.
(c) He has no hope to ever become wealthy.
(d) He still hopes for better times and to become rich.

4. What does Tevye take with him when he goes to Yehupetz to look for Mendl?
(a) A gift for Mendl.
(b) The contract he signed with Mendl.
(c) Dairy merchandise.
(d) His daughter.

5. Why does Berko think the train stopped?
(a) He thinks the power of the Priest's faith stopped it.
(b) He was fated to live another year.
(c) He thinks it was purely due to his own genius.
(d) He assumes it was just a coincidence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was the son exempt from the draft in High School?

2. How do the gossips explain the death of Yoyl Tashker's wife?

3. Where are the Cossack in The Wedding That Came Without Its Band from?

4. When the Man from Buenos Aires first emigrated to Buenos Aires what job does he take in the countryside?

5. What does Yoyl Tashker do for a living?

(see the answer key)

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