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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. What does the son score lowly on the second time he takes the exams in High School?

2. What does Itsik's mother call him for good luck?

3. How much money does Danielschik request so he can buy the beer hall and billiard parlor?

4. What convinces the Jews of Bohopoli to become "poliakovs" or people work for the railroad?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the appearance of Yoyl Tashker.

2. What reasons does Moshke give for needing money?

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

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

5. Describe the appearance of Motek.

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

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

8. How did Eisik die in The Automatic Exemption?

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

10. How did Rayzl's birth mother die?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Aleichem reveal motives of protagonists in his stories? Using at least three different examples, discuss how Aleichem reveals the motives of the narrators and how those motives strengthen the characterizations.

Essay Topic 2

Aleichem utilizes the literary tool of irony extensively throughout "Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories". Using at least three textual examples, describe how Aleichem utilized irony to establish themes, strengthen characterizations and add humor.

Essay Topic 3

How does Aleichem use the literary tool of dialogue to introduce new characters and establish themes? Is he effective in its use, why or why not?

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