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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Golde prepare for Ahronchik and his friend on their visit over the holiday to Tevye's house?
(a) Borscht.
(b) She refuses to make anything because it is the holiday.
(c) Challah.
(d) Blintzes.

2. Which is not one of the towns listed in Eighteen from Pereshchepena?
(a) Nemirov.
(b) Shpole.
(c) Lubin.
(d) Anatevka.

3. When Tevye meets the two women in the forest, which is not one of the things he offers to sell them?
(a) Some fine hunger pains.
(b) A week's supply of heartache.
(c) Tears to feel a soup bowl.
(d) A head full of scrambled brains.

4. Where does Hodl go at the end of the chapter Hodl?
(a) She goes to join Peppercorn in Siberia.
(b) She refuses to tell Tevye where she is going.
(c) She goes away to the university.
(d) She moves in with an aunt at Yehuputz.

5. Of the two salespeople described in Competitors, who has the lowest prices?
(a) The woman's prices are always lower.
(b) The man's prices are generally lower.
(c) Both salespeople charge the exact same prices.
(d) It changes from day to day whose prices are lower.

6. Why does Tevye go to see Layzar Wolf in Today's Children?
(a) Layzar has ordered some dairy goods from him.
(b) It is a social call, as Layzar and Tevye are friends.
(c) He wants to arrange a marriage with Layzar and his daughter.
(d) He thinks Layzar wants to buy his brown cow.

7. What is the name of the happy man from Kodny?
(a) Pedka.
(b) Chevka.
(c) Shimon.
(d) Alter.

8. How much money does Kivke request when he has been cheated by his father-in-law?
(a) 600 rubles.
(b) 400 rubles.
(c) 100 rubles.
(d) 200 rubles.

9. How does Reb Nissl help Kivke avoid running the gauntlet?
(a) He arranges to have him declared dead.
(b) He bribes officials to let him off with a three ruble fine.
(c) He finds a man willing to switch places with Kivke.
(d) He gets him pardoned with the governor.

10. How much money does the man from Kodny offer the professor to see his son?
(a) 25 rubles.
(b) 10 rubles.
(c) 300 rubles.
(d) 32 rubles.

11. How was Chvedka educated?
(a) He had private tutors growing up.
(b) He was educated abroad in Germany.
(c) He attending a University in Odessa.
(d) He is self-taught.

12. Why does Tevye end up staying in Russia instead of going to the Holy Land?
(a) He receives a note from Beilke asking him not to go.
(b) He finds he does not have paper needed to travel abroad.
(c) Motl dies and he stays to help Tsaytl.
(d) He becomes to sick to board the ship.

13. How does Beilke react when Tevye tells her that he is leaving for Palestine?
(a) She is angry and yells at Tevye.
(b) She is happy for Tevye and congratulates him.
(c) She is indifferent to his announcement.
(d) She weeps and cannot be comforted.

14. What gift does the old woman offer to Tevye for bring her back to the dacha?
(a) A goat.
(b) A milk cow.
(c) 18 rubles.
(d) A new coat.

15. How much did Tevye get paid to drag logs from the forest to the train station every day?
(a) One ruble a day.
(b) Three rubles a day.
(c) One ruble a week.
(d) Half a ruble a day.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is there a sudden influx in the population of Boiberik in Shprintze?

2. What happens to Tevye when he stops to pray in the evening after hauling logs all day?

3. Where does Tevye find his horse after he has eaten dinner at the rich man's dacha?

4. What relationship do the saleswoman and the salesman on the train have in the Competitors?

5. What do Tevye and his wife decide to buy with their reward from the rich Jew?

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