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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Providential Match.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Flora have Tamara send food to Shaya?
(a) Because he is hungry.
(b) Because she is similar to him.
(c) Because Tamara was in Flora's way.
(d) Because she wanted to run away.

2. What does Rouvke ask his mother to tell him about when he is first in the United States?
(a) Major world events.
(b) Gossip from their town.
(c) Details from Hanele's life.
(d) Rouvke doesn't talk to his mother at first.

3. What language does Jake disapprove of Getl speaking?
(a) English.
(b) Russian.
(c) Yiddish.
(d) German.

4. In "The New York Ghetto," why does Joe want Jake to talk to Mamie?
(a) To tease her.
(b) To find out where she is from.
(c) To ask her out.
(d) To convince her to dance.

5. What happens when the boss is on a quest for work in "Jake and Yekl"?
(a) He travels to Europe.
(b) The workers quit.
(c) The shop goes idle.
(d) His wife ignores him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jake explain Mamie's visit in "A Paterfamilias"?

2. What does Flora's father tell Reb Lippe about Shaya when they leave for America?

3. Why won't Shaya say the "Words of the Law" when the Talmudists ask him?

4. How does Rouvke feel when he sees Hanele for the first time in the United States?

5. While in the United States, what does Rouvke learn about Peretz?

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