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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 relief fund does Yoyl have to contribute to when he loses a bet?
(a) The local emigration fund.
(b) The local orphanage.
(c) The Drozhne relief fund.
(d) The Avelikz education fund.

2. How do the gossips explain the death of Yoyl Tashker's wife?
(a) They claim she committed suicide.
(b) The claim she died of hunger.
(c) They claim he beat her to death.
(d) They claim she died in a fire started by Yoyl.

3. What is the name of the Man from Buenos Aires?
(a) Asher.
(b) Motek.
(c) Levi.
(d) Pithom.

4. Why doesn't the narrator in trouble at the end of Fated for Misfortune?
(a) He has stolen money.
(b) He has broken his leg.
(c) He is bankrupt.
(d) He did not keep account books.

5. What was the name of Itsik's deceased brother.
(a) Eisik.
(b) Alter.
(c) Isaac.
(d) Afram

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the man in It Doesn't Pay to Be Good adopt two children?

2. What is the name of the town where the Man from Buenos Aires gets a job leading around a blind cantor?

3. How is the thief able to take the case from the Diamond Dealer?

4. Which city reports a cholera epidemic in the newspaper in A Game of Sixty-Six?

5. Why is Dovid taken to jail instead of Moyshe-Nachman?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Aharon's son leave the school?

2. In The Automatic Exemption, when the father visits lawyers in Yehupetz and explains his predicament to them, why are they unable to give him advice?

3. Describe the appearance of Motek.

4. How does the narrator of High School describe his wife?

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

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

7. What do the pogrom rioters find when they arrive at Heysen?

8. What type of relationship does Yoyl have with his neighbor Kompanyevitch?

9. How did Paysi's father die?

10. How does Danielchik treat others as a child?

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