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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which is not one of the towns listed in Eighteen from Pereshchepena?
(a) Shpole.
(b) Lubin.
(c) Nemirov.
(d) Anatevka.

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

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

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

5. How much money does Menachem Mendl want Tevye to invest in the stocks in Chapter 2?
(a) 100 rubles.
(b) 300 rubles.
(c) 600 rubles.
(d) 50 rubles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the long-haired messenger tell Hodl?

2. Why do Beilke and Podhotzur leave for America?

3. How much money does Kivke request from Kaminka for a dowry?

4. What do Tevye and his wife decide to buy with their reward from the rich Jew?

5. What is the name of Borodenko's village?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Golde regard Menachem?

2. Describe the appearance of the man from Kaminka in Baranovich Station.

3. How does the narrator describe the appearance of the man and woman salespeople he encounters on the train in Competitors?

4. What type of welcome does Tevye receive when he goes to visit Beilke and Podhotzur after they return from their honeymoon?

5. Describe the appearance of the man who suggests they "pass the hat around," in the Competitors.

6. What does Kivke threaten to do to Nissl Shapiro if he does not give him the 1000 rubles he requests?

7. What does Tsaytl beg her father for at the end of Lekh-Lekho?

8. Why does Ahronchik's brother offer Tevye money to Shprintze?

9. How do people treat Tevye different when he become rich from his reward from the two rescued women?

10. Why does Beilke agree to marry Podhotzur even though she does not love him?

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