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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does Mendl hide Tevye's money so that no one would steal it from him on his journey?
2. What year does Tevye record it as being at the end of Hodl?
3. What happens to Tevye the day after his meeting with Layzar that he sees as a bad omen?
4. What happens to Tevye when he stops to pray in the evening after hauling logs all day?
5. What is the name of the secret police spy who informed on so many revolutionaries that is being discussed at Baranovich Station?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Golde regard Menachem?
2. How does Tevye react when he finds that Mendl has lost all of his money?
3. Describe the appearance of the man from Kaminka in Baranovich Station.
4. How do people treat Tevye different when he become rich from his reward from the two rescued women?
5. How does Tevye convince Golde that Tsaytl should marry Motl instead of Layzar?
6. How does Tsaytl feel about the marrying Layzar?
7. How does the narrator describe the appearance of the man and woman salespeople he encounters on the train in Competitors?
8. What does Tevye plan to do when he finds that he is being expelled from the village?
9. Describe the appearance of the two women Tevye meets in the forest in Tevye Strikes It Rich.
10. Why doesn't Tevye initially want to take the two women he meets into the forest back to Boberick?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Aleichem depict the social issue of the unfair Russian drafting of Jews in his stories and what stance does Aleichem make about the concept?
Essay Topic 2
How does Aleichem utilize the literary technique of periphrasis throughout the novel to create believable narrators? How does this inclusion of periphrasis affect the pacing and tone of the stories?
Essay Topic 3
How does Aleichem utilize the literary tool of metaphor to establish the theme of good versus evil throughout "Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories"?
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