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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 is Flora reading in Chapter One of "The Imported Bridegroom"?

2. How does Flora feel when she first meets Shaya?

3. Why does Reb Tzalel feel Shaya is becoming an atheist?

4. Where does Flora's father announce he will travel after Passover?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Reb Lippe auctions off sections of the Pentaleuch to read?

2. Why does Mamie want Jake to go to Philadelphia?

3. What does Fieve tell Rouvke about Hanele and her family after he moved to the United States?

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

5. How does Jake feel at his divorce hearing?

6. What happens when Flora's father hears the sermon in Chapter Two of "The Imported Bridegroom"?

7. How does Rouvke feel about American women?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two or three stories that look at issues relating to a "generation gap." What problems does this gap cause? Is there a resolution? What would it take to resolve the gap?

Essay Topic 2

How is pride a theme examined in this collection? What message is presented about pride? Cite the text to support your theory about pride.

Essay Topic 3

Describe how education is a theme presented in several of the stories in this collection. Cite examples of the theme in a few stories. How is this theme important to each story? What does the theme of education add to the collection? What does it say about the author?

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