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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 diamond dealer try to sell to the commercial traveler at the end of the Hard Luck?
2. Before her adoption, how is the girl Rayzl related to her adopted father?
3. What convinces the Jews of Bohopoli to become "poliakovs" or people work for the railroad?
4. What ailment is Moyshe-Nachman trying to get treatment for?
5. Where does Aharon's son move so he can attend school?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the appearance of Motek.
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 does the 60-year-old man do to giveaway his skill at cards?
4. Why does the locomotive arrive with no train attached to it in The Wedding That Came Without Its Band?
5. What does the term "meeting the train" mean?
6. Why does the 60-year-old man tell the narrator a long story about how someone was tricked out of money playing cards?
7. How does Berko celebrate his life after the train incident?
8. How was Motek able to emigrate to Buenos Aires?
9. How does Moyshe-Nachman regard the affair of the arrest of his brother-in-law?
10. What do the pogrom rioters find when they arrive at Heysen?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
How does Aleichem establish the theme of fate in "Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories", and how does concept of fate differ between different characters in the book?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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