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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Perchik teaches Shprintze and Bielke outside their home as they do what?
(a) Wash clothes.
(b) Milk cows.
(c) Plant onions.
(d) Peel potatoes.

2. After Perchik explains where he came from, what does Mordcha sarcastically ask?
(a) If that is where he learned to criticize elders.
(b) Why he doesn't just go back there.
(c) If everyone there is such a know it all.
(d) Why he doesn't try to overthrow the Tsar.

3. Through Tevye's conversation with God, what do we learn about Tzeitel and Motel after their wedding?
(a) They're having trouble in their marriage.
(b) They're happy despite living in poverty.
(c) They're desperately struggling to get by.
(d) Lazar won't leave them alone.

4. In the conversation Tevye holds with God some time after the wedding, he says that Tzeitel and Motel work very hard and are as poor as what?
(a) Squirrels in winter.
(b) Birds without a nest.
(c) Newborn kittens.
(d) Cows without grass.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Perchik tells Hodel that traditions are changing in other places, with boys and girls holding hands and even doing what together?

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

3. As Tevye sits and talks to God after Tzeitel and Motel are married, what does he request?

4. Who stays behind to keep an eye on Motel's shop when he leaves for a few moments?

5. When Avram waves a newspaper, what terrible news from another town does he announce?

(see the answer key)

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