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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What worries Flora most about marrying Shaya?
(a) He isn't tall enough.
(b) He may go home.
(c) He may never learn English.
(d) He may become a rabbi.

2. What does Flora's father hope her future husband will do for a living?
(a) A preacher.
(b) A builder.
(c) A writer.
(d) A businessman.

3. How does Flora feel about Shaya's love of American books?
(a) Smitten.
(b) Fearful.
(c) Impressed.
(d) Jealous.

4. Why does Reb Tzalel feel Shaya is becoming an atheist?
(a) He was kissing a girl.
(b) He was smoking a cigarette.
(c) He was reading Dickens.
(d) He was speaking fluent English.

5. How does Jake respond when Fanny asks him about dance class?
(a) He is happy.
(b) He walks away.
(c) He cries.
(d) He snaps at her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of Yiddish does Jake speak?

2. What frightens Gitl about Mamie?

3. What do the other peddlers do after Hanele leaves Rouyke for Gospodin?

4. What makes Flora agree to become Shaya's sweetheart?

5. How does Jake describe his wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Rouvke's old townspeople feel about him?

2. What happens when the Talmudists come for dinner in "The Imported Bridegroom"?

3. What is Rouvke's life like when he first moves to the United States?

4. How does Flora react when Shaya comes home for the first time?

5. What is Flora's father's first impression of Pravly when he returns there in Chapter Three of "The Imported Bridegroom"?

6. How does Rouvke feel about American women?

7. How does Rouvke react when he first sees Hanele at the seaport in the United States?

8. Why do Fanny and Mamie have a conflict with each other?

9. How does Jake finally decide to bring his wife and son to the United States?

10. How does Flora's father end up bringing Shaya back to the United States?

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