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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. What is the name of Moshke's insurance agent?
(a) Paysi.
(b) Hershel.
(c) Itzl.
(d) Zaynvel.

2. What does the son score lowly on the second time he takes the exams in High School?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) History.
(c) Hebrew.
(d) Spelling.

3. Where is the setting of Hard Luck?
(a) A third class train car.
(b) The ticket counter at the train station.
(c) The second class waiting room at the station.
(d) The local bar.

4. Which is NOT one of the towns connected by the Slowpoke Express?
(a) Heysen.
(b) Bohopoli.
(c) Polikeva.
(d) Teplik.

5. Why does the Man from Buenos Aires run away from home at a young age?
(a) To avoid getting drafted into the army.
(b) To follow the love of his life.
(c) To start his career as a performer.
(d) To escape his abusive step-father.

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Automatic Exemption, what place is the tall bearded Jew originally from?

2. What is the name of the girl Danielschik marries?

3. In the game of Sixty-six, what is trump?

4. Why does the 60-year-old man claim to hate reading the newspaper?

5. How many children does Moyshe-Nachman have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reasons does Moshke give for needing money?

2. How does Moyshe-Nachman regard the affair of the arrest of his brother-in-law?

3. Why does the locomotive arrive with no train attached to it in The Wedding That Came Without Its Band?

4. What does Motek learn from his succession of low paying difficult jobs?

5. Why does Moyshe-Nachman have to support Dovid's family in Go Climb a Tree?

6. How did Eisik die in The Automatic Exemption?

7. As mentioned in the Slowpoke Express, what does the narrator consider a fact?

8. What does the term "meeting the train" mean?

9. How did Rayzl's birth mother die?

10. Describe the appearance of Motek.

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