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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What wedding gifts do Tevye and Golde give to the newly married couple, Tzeitel and Motel?
(a) Towels and scented soaps.
(b) Kitchen table, plates, and mugs.
(c) Featherbed, goose pillows, and candlesticks.
(d) Sewing machine and yards of cloth.

2. As Tevye pulls his cart, Golde finds him. She is distraught. What does she share with Tevye?
(a) Fyedka has kidnapped Chava.
(b) Fyedka and Chava are engaged.
(c) Chava left home in the morning with Fyedka.
(d) Chava is missing and nobody can find her.

3. When Yente hands a letter to Tzeitel, what else does she say?
(a) She often spots Chava and Fyedka together.
(b) Tevye owes her money.
(c) Golde insulted her.
(d) Perchik will never return to Hodel.

4. When Shandel crosses the stage in a rush and a woman asks her where she's running, Shandel replies ________________.
(a) To Motel's house.
(b) To the matchmaker's place.
(c) To see Golde.
(d) To the marketplace.

5. Some time after the wedding and the ruckus created by Russian soldiers, Tevye sits outside his home, talking to God. What does he start out talking about?
(a) His anger at his daughters.
(b) His troubles.
(c) His blessings.
(d) His anger at the Russians.

6. What does Lazar say when he first stands up to talk at Tzeitel and Motel's wedding celebration?
(a) Her never stood a chance.
(b) He'll get over his heartbreak eventually.
(c) Motel better watch out.
(d) He has no ill feelings.

7. At the end of the story, Yente says she will go where?
(a) The Holy Land.
(b) America.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) South America.

8. Who is sitting outside the railroad station, talking together?
(a) Motel and Tzeitel.
(b) Tevye and Motel.
(c) Hodel and Tzeitel.
(d) Hodel and Tevye.

9. While everyone's gathered at Motel's shop admiring the new arrival, Golde talks with Tzeitel about what?
(a) Tzeitel's relationship with Motel.
(b) The responsibility of running a shop.
(c) Tzeitel's sisters.
(d) The baby.

10. Some time after Tzeitel and Motel's wedding, why is Hodel upset with Perchik?
(a) He's been rude and arrogant lately.
(b) He dared ask her to dance with him.
(c) He's talking about leaving the village.
(d) She's afraid he loves someone else.

11. Why is one of Tevye's daughters going to Siberia?
(a) Chava is running away to marry Fyedka.
(b) The youngest will be going to school there.
(c) Perchik has been arrested and Hodel wants to go help him.
(d) Tzeitel is going to ask for financial help from a relative there.

12. As the villagers ask Tevye if he's seen the constable and then share with him rumors they've heard, the constable walks in and tells everyone what?
(a) He's looking for more men to join the Russian army.
(b) The Tsar will be stopping by that evening.
(c) They need to leave their village in three days.
(d) He will have to arrest them if they don't go home.

13. When Golde asks Yente which daughter gets which boy, what does the matchmaker reply?
(a) The girls can pick.
(b) The boys should decide.
(c) She hasn't decided that part yet.
(d) It makes no difference.

14. 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) It's not the best, but I've heard worse.
(b) Yes, terrible news.
(c) It depends on how you look at it.
(d) No, good news.

15. Inside Motel's shop, the villagers are gathered to see ______________.
(a) Motel and Tzeitel's new flower stand.
(b) Motel and Tzeitel's new baby.
(c) Tzeitel's new dress.
(d) The used sewing machine that just arrived.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Lazar give the newlyweds, Tzeitel and Motel?

3. Who helps the elderly rabbi to the table?

4. Before Perchik proposes to Hodel, he says that marriage must be founded on ______________.

5. 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?

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