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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Act 1, Scene 5 end?
(a) Tevye collapses and falls asleep.
(b) Golde yells at Tevye.
(c) Tevye dances off with the fiddler.
(d) Tevye gives Golde a kiss.

2. As they make preparations for the Sabbath, what does Tzeitel urge Motel to do?
(a) Distract Lazar so Tevye can't talk to him.
(b) Bring in extra food from his house.
(c) Find out who Perchik really is.
(d) Talk to Tevye before it's too late.

3. Why is one of Tevye's daughters going to Siberia?
(a) Chava is running away to marry Fyedka.
(b) The youngest will be going to school there.
(c) Tzeitel is going to ask for financial help from a relative there.
(d) Perchik has been arrested and Hodel wants to go help him.

4. Tevye tells Golde that in his dream, Grandmother Tzeitel looks pretty good considering that she's _____________.
(a) A transparent ghost.
(b) Pretty angry at everyone.
(c) Ninety years old.
(d) Been dead for thirty years.

5. When Tevye asks Shprintze and Bielke if they want to take lessons from Perchik, how do the girls respond?
(a) They refuse.
(b) They giggle and say yes.
(c) They ask their mother.
(d) They say they're not sure.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Perchik tries to reason with Hodel, who is very upset, he explains that what happened at her sister's wedding _____________.

2. What kind of shop does Motel own?

3. When gossip started by Yente spreads like wildfire, changing along the way, the village blames the supposed woes befalling Tevye's family upon _____________.

4. After Golde talks to Tevye about Lazar Wolf, what does Tevye agree to do?

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

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