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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Baranovich Station, pp. 152-163, Eighteen from Pereshchepena, pp. 163-166.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator in The Happiest Man in All Kodny, when is the best time to travel by train?
(a) Summer.
(b) Winter.
(c) Autumn.
(d) Spring.

2. How does Beilke react when Tevye tells her that he is leaving for Palestine?
(a) She is angry and yells at Tevye.
(b) She is happy for Tevye and congratulates him.
(c) She weeps and cannot be comforted.
(d) She is indifferent to his announcement.

3. Where does Mendl hide Tevye's money so that no one would steal it from him on his journey?
(a) He hides it in his shoe.
(b) He ties it to his belt.
(c) He sews it into his breast pocket.
(d) He puts it in his hat.

4. What does Shprintze ultimately do after she is heartbroken by Ahronchik?
(a) She marries another man, whom she does not love.
(b) She falls in love with another man.
(c) She commits suicide.
(d) She decides to remain at home forever, helping her parents.

5. What are the two men discussing in Eighteen from Pereshchepena?
(a) Restrictive school quotas for Jews.
(b) The Head Tax on Jews.
(c) Conscription of Jews into the army.
(d) The pogroms against Jews in their town.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the secret police spy who informed on so many revolutionaries that is being discussed at Baranovich Station?

2. What service does Peppercorn give to Tevye in exchange for a hot meal?

3. What dishes of Golde's does Tevye call "heaven on earth?"

4. Where does Hodl go at the end of the chapter Hodl?

5. Why does Tevye's wagon run into a tree on the way to Yehpuetz in Tevye Blows a Small Fortune?

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