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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. Why does Tamara live with Flora's family?
(a) She is the owner of the house.
(b) She is a widow.
(c) She is ill.
(d) She is their servant.

2. What does Rouvke want to do instead of being a peddler?
(a) Study the law.
(b) Write his own newspaper.
(c) Move back home.
(d) Open his own store.

3. Who does Rouvke say he feels like when he sees Hanele in the United States for the first time?
(a) Robert.
(b) A matchmaker.
(c) Rouvke.
(d) A professor.

4. What type of Yiddish does Jake speak?
(a) Traditional.
(b) Boston.
(c) Hebrew.
(d) New York.

5. How does Flora's father convince Shaya to marry Flora?
(a) With money.
(b) With her photograph.
(c) With a threat.
(d) With a Bible passage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rouvke fear ladies do to men who can't read the newspaper?

2. While in the United States, what does Rouvke learn about Peretz?

3. Why do Shaya's collection of Hebrew books make Flora cry?

4. What does Mrs. Kavarsky tell Gitl will happen to Jake if he cheats?

5. What does Gitl do when her divorce from Jake is finalized?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Gitl try to fit in with American culture?

3. Why is Flora disappointed at the end of "The Imported Bridegroom"?

4. How does Rouvke react to the news that Hanele is engaged to someone else?

5. How does Mrs. Kavarsky try to save Jake and Gitl's marriage?

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

7. How do Flora and her father disagree over her marriage prospects?

8. What does Jake say he did when he came to the United States?

9. How does Jake feel at his divorce hearing?

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

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