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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. How do most people prepare for the pogrom?

2. How was Paysi's birth father related to his adopted father?

3. What is the name of the rich man who dies in Fated for Misfortune?

4. What relief fund does Yoyl have to contribute to when he loses a bet?

5. What is the name of the Man from Buenos Aires?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the Jewish holiday of Sukkos celebrate?

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

4. How do Moshke's neighbors respond when his store burns down a second time?

5. Describe the appearance of Motek.

6. How does Motek describe his line of work?

7. How did Paysi's father die?

8. How does Moshke like to celebrate?

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 does Danielchik treat others as a child?

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

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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