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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was Chvedka educated?
(a) He was educated abroad in Germany.
(b) He is self-taught.
(c) He had private tutors growing up.
(d) He attending a University in Odessa.

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

3. What question about Mendle does Tevye ask Golde after he leaves their home?
(a) Tevye asks if she knows what Mendl does for a living.
(b) Tevye asks is Mendl was popular as a child.
(c) Tevye asks how old Mendl is.
(d) Tevye asks if Mendl has any children.

4. Where does Hodl go at the end of the chapter Hodl?
(a) She goes to join Peppercorn in Siberia.
(b) She moves in with an aunt at Yehuputz.
(c) She refuses to tell Tevye where she is going.
(d) She goes away to the university.

5. What causes the saleswoman to sit down on her basket and cry into her shawl?
(a) She finds out that her husband has died.
(b) She is insulted by a goy.
(c) Her basket is overturned and her merchandise spoiled.
(d) The Jews mock her and call her a beauty queen.

6. Why does Tevye envy the young man Yisro-eyl?
(a) His wife came with a dowry.
(b) He has several sons.
(c) He has a swell job.
(d) He was given a large inheritance.

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

8. Why does Tevye go to see Layzar Wolf in Today's Children?
(a) It is a social call, as Layzar and Tevye are friends.
(b) He thinks Layzar wants to buy his brown cow.
(c) He wants to arrange a marriage with Layzar and his daughter.
(d) Layzar has ordered some dairy goods from him.

9. Who suggests Podhotzur as a spouse for Beilke?
(a) Golde does just before she dies.
(b) The matchmaker Efrayim.
(c) Motl does, as he is a client of his.
(d) Podhotzur approaches Tevye himself.

10. When Tevye returns from his meeting with Layzar, how does Golde initially react?
(a) She asleep when he gets home and won't wake to hear his news.
(b) She is excited about that Tevye has become friends with Layzar.
(c) She ignores Tevye as she is busy cooking.
(d) She is angry at him for being drunk.

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

12. How does Golde feel about Peppercorn's marriage to Tevye's daugher Hodl?
(a) She likes Peppercorn and is pleased with 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 is indifferent to the match.

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

14. What is Chvedka's profession?
(a) He is a soldier.
(b) He is a delivery boy.
(c) He is a scribe.
(d) He is a farmer.

15. How many rubles does Tevye come home with, after saving the two women from the forest?
(a) 137 rubles.
(b) 53 rubles.
(c) 3 rubles.
(d) 37 rubles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Gorky?

2. Which is not one of the items mentioned as wares of the salespeople in The Competitors?

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

4. Why does Tevye think that Podhotzur has summoned him to his house after his marriage to Beilke?

5. According to the narrator in The Happiest Man in All Kodny, when is the best time to travel by train?

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