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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. Why did the man in It Doesn't Pay to Be Good adopt two children?
2. What language does Paysi learn as a youth in addition to his own?
3. What is the name of the contractor that arranges the bribe for the Heysen Merchant?
4. How was Paysi's birth father related to his adopted father?
5. What does the Man from Buenos Aires show the narrator to prove his wealth?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the term "meeting the train" mean?
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. What do the pogrom rioters find when they arrive at Heysen?
4. What does the 60-year-old man do to giveaway his skill at cards?
5. What does Motek learn from his succession of low paying difficult jobs?
6. As mentioned in the Slowpoke Express, what does the narrator consider a fact?
7. How does the narrator of High School describe his wife?
8. How does the Diamond Dealer describe the thief?
9. Why does Moyshe-Nachman have to support Dovid's family in Go Climb a Tree?
10. How does Berko celebrate his life after the train incident?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Aleichem draw attention to the generation gap between youth and their parents in this book, and what developments in the plot arise from the misunderstandings between generations?
Essay Topic 2
How can the plot of Tevye and his family be seen as a paradigm of the fate of the Russian Jewry around the turn of the century?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the importance of setting within "Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories". Make sure to discuss at least three different settings and how the descriptions of those settings are integral in the development of the themes and characters.
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