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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Slowpoke Express, pp. 184-186, The Miracle of Hoshanah Rabbah, pp. 186-194.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which is NOT one of the names that the priest mistakes for Berko's name for in The Miracle of Hoshanah Rabbah?
(a) Moshko.
(b) Dezko.
(c) Itzko.
(d) Liebko.

2. Why isn't the end of Kivke's story disclosed?
(a) The man did not know the ending.
(b) Kivke himself appears on the scene and everyone goes quiet.
(c) The man telling the story had to catch a train.
(d) A unexpected pogrom breaks up the storytelling.

3. Why is Chava in the priest's custody?
(a) She has agreed to marry a Christian.
(b) Tevye has asked the priest to help educate her.
(c) She is being punished for vandalizing the church.
(d) She wants to become a nun.

4. How does the train eventually stop?
(a) It loses momentum climbing a steep hill.
(b) It runs off track and crashes.
(c) It runs out of fuel.
(d) Train engineers manage to put something on the tracks to stop it.

5. Why is Tevye expelled from the village in Lekh-Lekho?
(a) The provinical governor has ordered all Jews to be expelled.
(b) It has been found out that his son-in-law Peppercorn is a revolutionary.
(c) His neighbors want to seize his land.
(d) He is punished for not paying his taxes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Golde suggest that Tevye do in order to get the Priest to allow him to see Chava?

2. Why does the narrator choose to travel third class?

3. What does Shprintze call Ahronchik?

4. How much money does Kivke request when he has been cheated by his father-in-law?

5. Who takes care of Tevye after his wife, Golde dies?

(see the answer key)

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