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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 the Man from Buenos Aires?
(a) Asher.
(b) Levi.
(c) Pithom.
(d) Motek.

2. How long had Moshke had insurance before the place burned down?
(a) Two months.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) Two years.
(d) One day.

3. What is the name of the town where the Man from Buenos Aires gets a job leading around a blind cantor?
(a) Nanyev.
(b) Mitava.
(c) Tomashpol.
(d) Shpole.

4. Why did the man in It Doesn't Pay to Be Good adopt two children?
(a) Because he is childless.
(b) Because there was a tax break for adopting them.
(c) Because he had an omen that he should adopt them.
(d) Because he thought they resembled him.

5. Why was the son exempt from the draft in High School?
(a) He had a heart condition.
(b) He was partly blind.
(c) The father had already bribed the conscription officer.
(d) He is an only son.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the Man from Buenos Aires run away from home at a young age?

2. What was the name of Itsik's deceased brother.

3. Why won't Yoyl terminate Kompanyevitch's lease even though he greatly dislikes him?

4. What is the name of the cantor's daughter who committed suicide?

5. What was the name of Rayzl's birth mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Diamond Dealer describe the thief?

2. How did Rayzl's birth mother die?

3. How does Danielchik treat others as a child?

4. What reasons does Moshke give for needing money?

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

6. How does Motek describe his line of work?

7. How does Moshke like to celebrate?

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

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

10. What does the 60-year-old man do to giveaway his skill at cards?

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