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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Golde feel about Peppercorn's marriage to Tevye's daugher Hodl?

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

3. What year does Tevye record it as being at the end of Hodl?

4. Who does Tevye blame primarily for the loss of his small fortune?

5. What do Tevye and Layzar drink during their meeting in Today's Children?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kivke threaten to do to Nissl Shapiro if he does not give him the 1000 rubles he requests?

2. How does Tevye react when he finds that Mendl has lost all of his money?

3. What is the misconception about the topic of conversation in Eighteen from Pereshchepena?

4. Why does Tevye like Pertchik?

5. Describe the table that is set for the two women, when Tevye brings them back to the dacha in Boberick?

6. Why doesn't Tevye initially want to take the two women he meets into the forest back to Boberick?

7. What does Tsaytl beg her father for at the end of Lekh-Lekho?

8. How does Tsaytl feel about the marrying Layzar?

9. How doe Tevye and Menachem spend their evening together?

10. How does Tevye convince Golde that Tsaytl should marry Motl instead of Layzar?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is the theme of greed displayed in "Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories"? Use at least three textual examples to show what commentary Aleichem is making about this theme.

Essay Topic 2

How does Aleichem establish the theme of fate in "Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories", and how does concept of fate differ between different characters in the book?

Essay Topic 3

How does Aleichem draw attention to the generation gap between youth and their parents in this book, and what developments in the plot arise from the misunderstandings between generations?

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