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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When addressing the audience at the start of the story, Tevye explains that in his community balance is kept through what?
(a) Hard work.
(b) Law and order.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Tradition.

2. How does Golde react to the news the matchmaker delivers regarding the butcher?
(a) She asks the matchmaker to leave.
(b) She's horrified.
(c) She's pleased.
(d) She faints.

3. In the "Tradition" song, what does each son hope about the bride chosen for him?
(a) She's smart.
(b) She's pretty.
(c) She sings nicely.
(d) She cooks well.

4. At the start of Act 1, Scene 2, Tevye enters pulling a cart. He addresses God, asking what?
(a) When his daughters will marry.
(b) Why his life continues to be so difficult.
(c) Whose idea it was to make him a milkman.
(d) Where he can find the riches he wants.

5. Before Tevye arrives to talk with Lazar, the butcher orders what?
(a) Two glasses and a bottle of brandy.
(b) Two cups of coffee.
(c) A cup of coffee and a cup of tea.
(d) Two mugs of hot soup.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Motel manages to get Tevye's attention right before everyone has dinner, he wants to talk about Tzeitel but all he is able to say is what?

3. As everyone prepares for the Sabbath, what does Tzeitel tell Motel when they are alone?

4. When the townspeople Mordcha and Mendel complain toTevye that he forgot their orders for the Sabbath, what does he reply?

5. When Tevye sings "If I Were A Rich Man," he says that he'd build a house with one staircase going up, one going down, and the third _____________.

(see the answer key)

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