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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Tevye react when he first learns that Lazar is interested in Tzeitel?
(a) He's angry.
(b) He says Lazar is way too old.
(c) He laughs uncontrollably.
(d) He's surprised.

2. Hearing the news of the upcoming marriage, Russians who were sitting and drinking nearby bestow the following words upon Lazar and Tevye:
(a) Enjoy everything.
(b) Live long and prosper.
(c) Be well and merry.
(d) Heaven bless you both.

3. At Motel and Tzeitel's wedding, who wonders if they'll be married one day?
(a) The village's bachelors.
(b) Perchik and Hodel.
(c) Chava and Fyedka.
(d) Tevye's youngest daughters.

4. Who is sitting outside the railroad station, talking together?
(a) Tevye and Motel.
(b) Motel and Tzeitel.
(c) Hodel and Tzeitel.
(d) Hodel and Tevye.

5. As the pair sits together at the railroad station ________________.
(a) Hodel tells Tevye he doesn't have to wait with her.
(b) Tevye tells Motel to come back to Tzeitel soon.
(c) Tzeitel cries and asks why Motel must leave.
(d) Hodel and Tzeitel wish each other good luck in life.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the wedding scene, Tzeitel enters in her bridal clothes, followed by _________________.

3. When Tevye talks to himself about Lazar, wondering whether or not to give permission for the marriage, he says that ______________.

4. As the wedding ceremony progresses, the women of the village sing, "One season following another, Laden with ...:"

5. Hodel tells Tevye that Perchik is in trouble but through no fault of his own. When Tevye expresses doubt, Hodel reminds him about the stories of _____________.

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