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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What gift does the old woman offer to Tevye for bring her back to the dacha?
(a) A milk cow.
(b) A goat.
(c) A new coat.
(d) 18 rubles.

2. Why does Tevye think that Yankl should be fired as sexton of the Burial Society?
(a) He thinks Yankl steals from the graves.
(b) He thinks a humbler man should have the job.
(c) He thinks it is beneath Yankl's station.
(d) He thinks its unfair he eats and drinks at the public's expense.

3. What is Chvedka's profession?
(a) He is a soldier.
(b) He is a farmer.
(c) He is a scribe.
(d) He is a delivery boy.

4. Why do Beilke and Podhotzur leave for America?
(a) They leave to escape the riots.
(b) Podhotzur has family there and wants to live in New York.
(c) They go broke and flee their creditors.
(d) Podhotzur establishes a great business there.

5. How does Tevye find Mendl in Yehpuetz?
(a) He runs into him by chance at the market.
(b) He waits at Mendl's favorite bar until he arrives.
(c) He asks around get is told his whereabouts.
(d) He goes to Mendl's mother-in-law and find him there.

6. What are the two men discussing in Eighteen from Pereshchepena?
(a) Conscription of Jews into the army.
(b) The pogroms against Jews in their town.
(c) The Head Tax on Jews.
(d) Restrictive school quotas for Jews.

7. What does Golde prepare for Ahronchik and his friend on their visit over the holiday to Tevye's house?
(a) Challah.
(b) Blintzes.
(c) Borscht.
(d) She refuses to make anything because it is the holiday.

8. Which is not one of the towns listed in Eighteen from Pereshchepena?
(a) Nemirov.
(b) Shpole.
(c) Anatevka.
(d) Lubin.

9. Where doe Beilke and Podhotzur go on their honeymoon?
(a) Italy.
(b) Germany.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) Austria.

10. What service does Peppercorn give to Tevye in exchange for a hot meal?
(a) He helps Tevye pack his wagon.
(b) He keeps Tevye's books.
(c) He gives lessons to Tevye's daughters.
(d) He repairs Tevye's roof.

11. How many rubles does Tevye come home with, after saving the two women from the forest?
(a) 137 rubles.
(b) 3 rubles.
(c) 37 rubles.
(d) 53 rubles.

12. What is the name of the happy man from Kodny?
(a) Alter.
(b) Shimon.
(c) Chevka.
(d) Pedka.

13. Where does Hodl go at the end of the chapter Hodl?
(a) She goes away to the university.
(b) She goes to join Peppercorn in Siberia.
(c) She moves in with an aunt at Yehuputz.
(d) She refuses to tell Tevye where she is going.

14. What is Peppercorn studying for?
(a) He is studying to become a doctor.
(b) University Entrance Exams.
(c) Civil Servant Exams.
(d) He is studying to become a lawyer.

15. What do Tevye and Layzar drink during their meeting in Today's Children?
(a) Only water.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Brandy.
(d) Tea.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote a letter for the happy man from Kodny to take to the professor?

2. What does Golde suggest that Tevye do in order to get the Priest to allow him to see Chava?

3. Why does Tevye envy the young man Yisro-eyl?

4. What is the name of the secret police spy who informed on so many revolutionaries that is being discussed at Baranovich Station?

5. Why is Tevye expelled from the village in Lekh-Lekho?

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