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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. As Perchik tries to talk to Hodel, who is very unhappy with him, what does he say?
(a) Their dance was innocent and nobody minded it.
(b) He can't stand living in the village any longer.
(c) He didn't mean to fall in love with someone else.
(d) He's leaving for Kiev the next morning.
2. From the letter Yente picks up and delivers to Tzeitel, everyone learns that Perchik ________________.
(a) Will be gone for years.
(b) Is working as a spy.
(c) Has become a professor.
(d) Has been arrested.
3. After the wedding, Tevye speaks to God and starts to say, "As the Good Book says ..." but then stops himself. What does he say right afterward?
(a) Forgive me, I wasn't thinking.
(b) Oops, I forgot who I was talking to.
(c) Ah, you already know what is written in the Good Book.
(d) Why should I tell you what the Good Book says?
4. 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 growing revolution.
(b) Tzeitel refusing to accept the match with Lazar.
(c) The fact that everyone danced together at the wedding.
(d) Tevye's daughters growing in independence.
5. When the wedding ceremony is over and the celebrating begins, what does Mordcha say when he asks for silence?
(a) Asks people to not get too loud.
(b) Invites everyone to dance.
(c) Blesses the couple.
(d) Tells everyone drinks are on the house.
6. Long after Tzeitel's wedding, someone asks the rabbi if he's heard the news. The rabbi asks if it's more bad news, and the reply is ______________.
(a) No, good news.
(b) It depends on how you look at it.
(c) Yes, terrible news.
(d) It's not the best, but I've heard worse.
7. As the pair sits together at the railroad station ________________.
(a) Hodel tells Tevye he doesn't have to wait with her.
(b) Hodel and Tzeitel wish each other good luck in life.
(c) Tzeitel cries and asks why Motel must leave.
(d) Tevye tells Motel to come back to Tzeitel soon.
8. When Yente hands Tzeitel a letter written by Perchik, Tzeitel notes that _______________.
(a) Perchik has been harmed.
(b) The letter is unfinished.
(c) The letter has already been opened.
(d) Everyone was worried that Perchik was dead.
9. Right before everyone leaves the village, Chava and Fyedka stop by to explain that they also are leaving because ________________.
(a) They can't live among people who would do this to others.
(b) They are not wanted in their neighborhood.
(c) Feelings are stronger than principle.
(d) Family always sticks together.
10. As Perchik tries to reason with Hodel, who is very upset, he explains that what happened at her sister's wedding _____________.
(a) Was a simple misunderstanding.
(b) Meant absolutely nothing.
(c) Is a sign that the villagers have it in for him.
(d) Is a sign of violence happening across the country.
11. Who is sitting outside the railroad station, talking together?
(a) Tevye and Motel.
(b) Hodel and Tevye.
(c) Motel and Tzeitel.
(d) Hodel and Tzeitel.
12. The boys that the matchmaker brings Golde for her youngest daughters _______________.
(a) Have the same first name.
(b) Are brothers.
(c) Are visiting their relatives in the village.
(d) Are the matchmaker's nephews.
13. When Chava tries to talk to Tevye about the feelings she and Fyedka have for each other, Tevye says it would make him happy if _______________.
(a) She would let the matchmaker do her job.
(b) Fyedka left their village.
(c) She followed her heart.
(d) They remained friends from a distance.
14. Before Perchik proposes to Hodel, he says that marriage must be founded on ______________.
(a) Love and devotion.
(b) Mutual beliefs.
(c) Trust.
(d) Friendship.
15. After Tevye's talk with Chava regarding Fyedka, the audience finds Tevye talking with God and pulling his cart. Why isn't his horse pulling it?
(a) He figures his horse has worked more than enough that day.
(b) The horse still has a bad leg.
(c) The horse has run off.
(d) The blacksmith is putting new shoes on his horse.
Short Answer Questions
1. When the villagers are gathered at his shop, why does Motel hold up two different pieces of cloth that have been sewn together?
2. Hodel tells Tevye that Perchik is in trouble but through no fault of his own. When Tevye expresses doubt, Hodel reminds him about the stories of _____________.
3. When everyone talks about big news, the audience is led to believe that Tzeitel and Motel _______________.
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?
5. As Yente and other women of the village gossip, the story keeps changing. By the end of their gossiping, everyone mistakenly thinks that who has been arrested?
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