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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. Why does the narrator choose to travel third class?
(a) Because it is not as crowded.
(b) Because he likes simple people.
(c) Because it is easier to get a ticket last minute.
(d) Because he likes saving money.

2. What happens to Tevye when he stops to pray in the evening after hauling logs all day?
(a) He hears a woman crying.
(b) He finds a ruble on the ground.
(c) It begins to rain on him.
(d) His horse decides to run off.

3. What happens to Tevye the day after his meeting with Layzar that he sees as a bad omen?
(a) His cow dies.
(b) He gets the stomach flu.
(c) He injures his hand.
(d) His cart overturns.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Golde suggest that Tevye do in order to get the Priest to allow him to see Chava?

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

3. What does Golde prepare for Ahronchik and his friend on their visit over the holiday to Tevye's house?

4. Of the two salespeople described in Competitors, who has the lowest prices?

5. What is wrong with Itzikl Borodenko's daughter in The Happiest Man in All Kodny?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the table that is set for the two women, when Tevye brings them back to the dacha in Boberick?

2. What does Tevye plan to do when he finds that he is being expelled from the village?

3. Why does Tevye try to avoid having discussions with the town Priest?

4. Why does Tevye give Pertchik the nickname of Peppercorn?

5. What good deeds do the manor owners of Kodny do for the poor?

6. How does the rich Jew respond when Tevye requests three rubles as a reward for bringing the two women in from the forest?

7. What is the misconception about the topic of conversation in Eighteen from Pereshchepena?

8. What causes the man from Pereshchepena to become irritated with the other two Jews?

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

10. Describe the appearance of Ahronchik.

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