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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Motel manages to get Tevye's attention right before everyone has dinner, he wants to talk about Tzeitel but all he is able to say is what?
(a) I'll be right back.
(b) Good Sabbath.
(c) Thank you.
(d) Nice hat.

2. 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) They failed to put in their order.
(c) He had trouble with his horse.
(d) He forgot, and he's sorry.

3. After Golde talks to Tevye about Lazar Wolf, what does Tevye agree to do?
(a) Talk to him after the Sabbath.
(b) Offer one of his daughters for marriage.
(c) Invite him to dinner.
(d) Ask Lazar what he thinks of the eldest daughter.

4. At the wedding, after the rabbi prays over a glass goblet of wine, what do Tzeitel and Motel do?
(a) Present gifts to their parents.
(b) Kiss each other.
(c) Take a sip from the goblet.
(d) Sing a traditional song.

5. When gossip started by Yente spreads like wildfire, changing along the way, the village blames the supposed woes befalling Tevye's family upon _____________.
(a) The fact that everyone danced together at the wedding.
(b) Tzeitel refusing to accept the match with Lazar.
(c) Tevye's daughters growing in independence.
(d) The growing revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the wedding scene, Tzeitel enters in her bridal clothes, followed by _________________.

2. In the lesson that Perchik tells Tevye's daughters about Laban and Jacob, what does Laban do?

3. From the letter Yente picks up and delivers to Tzeitel, everyone learns that Perchik ________________.

4. When Golde asks her daughter Chava if she has finished milking the cows, what does Chava accidentally drop?

5. In the "Tradition" song, each daughter is prepared to marry ____________.

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