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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Prologue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Tevye sings "If I Were A Rich Man," he says that he'd build a house with one staircase going up, one going down, and the third _____________.
(a) Going sideways.
(b) Extending beyond the roof.
(c) Going nowhere.
(d) Extending into the cellar.

2. When Avram waves a newspaper, what terrible news from another town does he announce?
(a) Russian soldiers attacked the Jews.
(b) All the Jews were evicted.
(c) A flood devastated the town.
(d) The Tsar arrested town leaders.

3. After Perchik explains where he came from, what does Mordcha sarcastically ask?
(a) Why he doesn't just go back there.
(b) Why he doesn't try to overthrow the Tsar.
(c) If that is where he learned to criticize elders.
(d) If everyone there is such a know it all.

4. In the conversation Tevye holds with God some time after the wedding, he says that Tzeitel and Motel work very hard and are as poor as what?
(a) Birds without a nest.
(b) Newborn kittens.
(c) Cows without grass.
(d) Squirrels in winter.

5. When the townspeople Mordcha and Mendel complain toTevye that he forgot their orders for the Sabbath, what does he reply?
(a) They haven't paid him yet.
(b) He had trouble with his horse.
(c) They failed to put in their order.
(d) He forgot, and he's sorry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Perchik teaches Shprintze and Bielke outside their home as they do what?

2. When Tevye talks to himself about Lazar, wondering whether or not to give permission for the marriage, he says that ______________.

3. Who is listening in as Perchik teaches Shprintze and Bielke?

4. Perchik tells Hodel that traditions are changing in other places, with boys and girls holding hands and even doing what together?

5. Despite how the villagers feel about Motel and Tzeitel's upcoming wedding, what do they say to Motel?

(see the answer key)

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