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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Automatic Exemption, pp. 229-238, It Doesn't Pay to Be Good, pp. 238-.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Aharon's business fall apart?
(a) His wife moves to Poland with the son and leaves him shorthanded.
(b) He has spent all his money on bribes for his son.
(c) He is robbed.
(d) He suffers anxiety about his son and is unable to work.

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

3. What part of the entrance exam does the son initially fail in High School.
(a) Language.
(b) History.
(c) Science.
(d) Mathematics.

4. When Tevye meets the two women in the forest, which is not one of the things he offers to sell them?
(a) Tears to feel a soup bowl.
(b) Some fine hunger pains.
(c) A head full of scrambled brains.
(d) A week's supply of heartache.

5. What do Tevye and Layzar drink during their meeting in Today's Children?
(a) Only water.
(b) Brandy.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Tea.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tevye find Mendl in Yehpuetz?

2. Who wrote a letter for the happy man from Kodny to take to the professor?

3. What is Kompanyevitch's profession?

4. What causes the saleswoman to sit down on her basket and cry into her shawl?

5. Why does Tevye end up staying in Russia instead of going to the Holy Land?

(see the answer key)

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