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

2. What is the name of the cantor's daughter who committed suicide?
(a) Ruth.
(b) Shoshana.
(c) Veda.
(d) Chaika.

3. What does The Man from Buenos Aires hope to find in his hometown?
(a) His missing brother.
(b) A wife.
(c) A loyal dog.
(d) His childhood home.

4. What convinces the Jews of Bohopoli to become "poliakovs" or people work for the railroad?
(a) They were given a tax break.
(b) They were anxious to be able to travel to St. Petersburg more easily.
(c) They were forced to work on the railroad by the army.
(d) It was an easy way to make money.

5. What part of the entrance exam does the son initially fail in High School.
(a) Mathematics.
(b) History.
(c) Language.
(d) Science.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who panics the most about the upcoming pogrom in The Wedding That Came Without Its Band?

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

4. What does Berko do for a living?

5. How many children does Moyshe-Nachman have?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Rayzl's birth mother die?

2. How did Paysi's father die?

3. What does the Jewish holiday of Sukkos celebrate?

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

5. Why does the 60-year-old man tell the narrator a long story about how someone was tricked out of money playing cards?

6. Describe the appearance of Motek.

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

8. 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?

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

10. How did Eisik die in The Automatic Exemption?

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