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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The villagers want to know if Tevye has seen the constable because they heard rumors about _______________.
(a) The death of the Tsar.
(b) An edict in St. Petersburg.
(c) Soldiers marching to their village.
(d) An increase in their taxes.

2. Despite Golde's protests, what does Tevye decide about Chava?
(a) There is nothing he can do to convince her to come home.
(b) She is dead to them now.
(c) She's better off with Fyedka.
(d) She's too stubborn to reason with.

3. When gossip started by Yente spreads like wildfire, changing along the way, the village blames the supposed woes befalling Tevye's family upon _____________.
(a) Tevye's daughters growing in independence.
(b) The fact that everyone danced together at the wedding.
(c) Tzeitel refusing to accept the match with Lazar.
(d) The growing revolution.

4. Long after Tzeitel's wedding, someone asks the rabbi if he's heard the news. The rabbi asks if it's more bad news, and the reply is ______________.
(a) It depends on how you look at it.
(b) Yes, terrible news.
(c) No, good news.
(d) It's not the best, but I've heard worse.

5. As the villagers ask Tevye if he's seen the constable and then share with him rumors they've heard, the constable walks in and tells everyone what?
(a) He will have to arrest them if they don't go home.
(b) The Tsar will be stopping by that evening.
(c) He's looking for more men to join the Russian army.
(d) They need to leave their village in three days.

6. When the villagers are gathered at his shop, why does Motel hold up two different pieces of cloth that have been sewn together?
(a) So everyone can see the start of the banner for the new flower shop.
(b) To show the new dress he's making for Tzeitel.
(c) To show that he's tried out the newly arrived sewing machine.
(d) It's the beginning of the blanket he's sewing for his baby.

7. As Perchik tries to talk to Hodel, who is very unhappy with him, what does he say?
(a) He's leaving for Kiev the next morning.
(b) He can't stand living in the village any longer.
(c) Their dance was innocent and nobody minded it.
(d) He didn't mean to fall in love with someone else.

8. Right before everyone leaves the village, Chava and Fyedka stop by to explain that they also are leaving because ________________.
(a) Family always sticks together.
(b) They can't live among people who would do this to others.
(c) Feelings are stronger than principle.
(d) They are not wanted in their neighborhood.

9. The boys that the matchmaker brings Golde for her youngest daughters _______________.
(a) Are the matchmaker's nephews.
(b) Are brothers.
(c) Are visiting their relatives in the village.
(d) Have the same first name.

10. Long after Tzeitel's wedding, upon hearing of big news, the villagers trade _______________.
(a) Gasps.
(b) Mazeltovs.
(c) Condolences.
(d) Insults.

11. After Tevye's talk with Chava regarding Fyedka, the audience finds Tevye talking with God and pulling his cart. Why isn't his horse pulling it?
(a) The horse still has a bad leg.
(b) The blacksmith is putting new shoes on his horse.
(c) The horse has run off.
(d) He figures his horse has worked more than enough that day.

12. Golde tells Tevye that in her search for Chava, she went to talk to the priest. What did the priest tell her?
(a) Chava is pregnant and frightened.
(b) He swore he would not reveal Chava's whereabouts.
(c) Chava and Fyedka were married.
(d) He didn't know anything.

13. As Yente and other women of the village gossip, the story keeps changing. By the end of their gossiping, everyone mistakenly thinks that who has been arrested?
(a) Golde.
(b) Hodel.
(c) Motel.
(d) Tevye.

14. After the wedding, Tevye speaks to God and starts to say, "As the Good Book says ..." but then stops himself. What does he say right afterward?
(a) Oops, I forgot who I was talking to.
(b) Why should I tell you what the Good Book says?
(c) Ah, you already know what is written in the Good Book.
(d) Forgive me, I wasn't thinking.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. While Yente talks with Golde about possible matches for her youngest daughters, several men come to the house and ask for ______________.

2. Where is Lazar Wolf going at the end of the story?

3. Who is sitting outside the railroad station, talking together?

4. Villagers are asking the rabbi and each other about the big news, which is about a new _______________.

5. Why is everyone shocked when, at Tzeitel's wedding reception, Perchik asks Hodel to dance with him?

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