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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey; The Beginning of the World Often Comes; The Lottery, 1791; Letter Dated 20 July 1997; An Overture to Encountering the Hero, and Then Encountering the Hero.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the purpose of The Lottery?
(a) It is a method of deciding who will adopt a baby.
(b) It is a game to win enough money for two years wages.
(c) It is a game to win a trip to America.
(d) It is a method of deciding who needs to die as an offering.

2. In "The Lottery, 1791," what is the name of the synagogue where the Rabbi does NOT want the baby to go?
(a) The Slouching Synagogue.
(b) The Upright Synagogue.
(c) The Shalom Temple.
(d) The Trachimbrod Synagogue.

3. Who claims that it was Trachim who drove into the river?
(a) Yankel.
(b) Shalom.
(c) Sofiowka.
(d) Hannah.

4. What are the Ukrainians celebrating when Jonathan arrives?
(a) Jonathan's arrival.
(b) The end of the war.
(c) The new year.
(d) Their new constitution.

5. Who is nicknamed the "Clumsy One?"
(a) Grandfather.
(b) Alexander.
(c) Jonathen.
(d) Little Igor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alex's father call him?

2. According to Alex, what is Grandfather like after the trip to Lutsk?

3. How long does it take the baby to choose a name?

4. What is the most important item found in the river?

5. Who says "I mount the autobus for an hour to work all day doing things I hate. You want to know why? It is for you . . . One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be a family" (2)?

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