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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 does the 60-year-old man claim to hate reading the newspaper?

2. How many children does Moyshe-Nachman have?

3. Before her adoption, how is the girl Rayzl related to her adopted father?

4. Which is NOT one of professions that Danielschik attempts to apprentice for?

5. How does Aharon's wife react when her son leaves school?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Rayzl's birth mother die?

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

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. How does the narrator of High School describe his wife?

6. Describe the appearance of Yoyl Tashker.

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

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

9. How did Eisik die in The Automatic Exemption?

10. How does Danielchik treat others as a child?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 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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