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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Act 1, Scene 5 end?

2. What does the spirit of Lazar Wolf's first wife indicate she'll do to Tzeitel?

3. While Tevye is introducing his family to Perchik, Motel arrives. What does Tevye say about Motel?

4. Who appears to Tevye in his dream after Grandmother Tzeitel is done talking to him?

5. Tevye tells Golde that in his dream, Grandmother Tzeitel looks pretty good considering that she's _____________.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tevye react after Hodel and Perchik tell him that they are engaged?

2. By the end of Tevye's dream sequence, what helps Golde to give up on the idea of Tzeitel marrying Lazar and accept that she is to wed Motel instead?

3. What does Tevye ask God to help Tzeitel and Motel with?

4. How does Tzeitel take the news that she is to be married to Lazar Wolf?

5. Why is Hodel upset that Perchik is leaving for Kiev?

6. How are things made somewhat right with Chava in the end?

7. Why is Motel reluctant to talk with Tevye about his love for Tzeitel?

8. At the start of the story, what does Tevye share with the audience about tradition?

9. As people congratulate Motel on his upcoming wedding, why do their well wishes seem insincere?

10. After much drinking and merriment following Tevye's permission to Lazar to marry his daughter, what do these two say to each other about how they'll be related after the wedding?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Provide three examples showing how traditions are changing in Anatevka.

1. What serves as a catalyst for change in each case?

2. Does each change benefit anyone? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast Tevye and Golde's five daughters. How does each one break the traditional mold?

Essay Topic 3

Explain how the times when Tevye speaks to the audience, and also to God, work well to advance the story in the absence of a narrator.

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