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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Peppercorn studying for?
(a) He is studying to become a lawyer.
(b) Civil Servant Exams.
(c) University Entrance Exams.
(d) He is studying to become a doctor.

2. What items are Podhotzur's house full of?
(a) Paintings and books.
(b) Sculptures and vases.
(c) Stuffed animals and skeletons.
(d) Clocks and mirrors.

3. What is the name of the town the two women are trying to get to?
(a) Yehupetz.
(b) Velamalshin.
(c) Boreykh.
(d) Boiberik.

4. What is the name of the secret police spy who informed on so many revolutionaries that is being discussed at Baranovich Station?
(a) Berko.
(b) Yudko.
(c) Azef.
(d) Purish.

5. Who is Gorky?
(a) An important literary figure.
(b) A revered Rabbi.
(c) The current prime minister.
(d) The leader of the revolutionary movement.

6. What is the name of the coachman who took Kivke to Germany?
(a) Shimon.
(b) Petre.
(c) Yentke.
(d) Victor.

7. Why does Tevye end up staying in Russia instead of going to the Holy Land?
(a) Motl dies and he stays to help Tsaytl.
(b) He receives a note from Beilke asking him not to go.
(c) He finds he does not have paper needed to travel abroad.
(d) He becomes to sick to board the ship.

8. 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) A week's supply of heartache.
(c) A head full of scrambled brains.
(d) Some fine hunger pains.

9. How much money does the man from Kodny offer the professor to see his son?
(a) 300 rubles.
(b) 10 rubles.
(c) 25 rubles.
(d) 32 rubles.

10. What is the name of Borodenko's village?
(a) Anatevka.
(b) Kodny.
(c) Kashevarevke.
(d) Rhyskevka.

11. Who does Tevye sell his house to?
(a) Ivan Paparilo.
(b) He is unable to sell his house.
(c) Chava and Chevdka.
(d) Mendel Beilis.

12. How does Golde feel about Peppercorn's marriage to Tevye's daugher Hodl?
(a) She is indifferent to the match.
(b) She refuses to acknowledge the wedding and mourns Hodl as dead.
(c) She is stunned that Tevye has allowed it.
(d) She likes Peppercorn and is pleased with the match.

13. What relationship do the saleswoman and the salesman on the train have in the Competitors?
(a) They are brother and sister.
(b) They are neighbors.
(c) They are cousins.
(d) They are married.

14. Why do Beilke and Podhotzur leave for America?
(a) Podhotzur establishes a great business there.
(b) They go broke and flee their creditors.
(c) They leave to escape the riots.
(d) Podhotzur has family there and wants to live in New York.

15. What is wrong with Itzikl Borodenko's daughter in The Happiest Man in All Kodny?
(a) She has a severe chest cough.
(b) She is losing vision in her right eye.
(c) She has frequent dizzy spells.
(d) She has poisoned herself after being jilted.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who suggests Podhotzur as a spouse for Beilke?

2. Where did the happy man from Kodny get his rubles to offer the professor?

3. How was Chvedka educated?

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

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

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