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WorksheetsY9 Shtetl Review Quiz
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
What is the name of the school that boys attended in the shtetl?
The cheder
The hadar
The radar
The chacham
What do you call the organisation in charge of each shtetl?
(a)
A khapper is someone who...
steals boys and makes them into slaves
steals boys and makes them into matzah
steals boys and makes them into soldiers
steals girls and marries them
What was the main language spoken in the shtetls?
Hebrew
Russian
Irish
Yiddish
As far as tsars go, how was Alexander II for the Jews of the Pale of Settlement?
Bad for the first half of his life, good for the second half
Worse than any of the other tsars
Fantastic - he abolished the Pale of Settlement
Better than Nicholas I, but that wasn't hard
Which of the following was NOT one of the major 'gender roles' of the shtetl?
Papa
Daughters
Yente
Father
Who set up the Pale of Settlement?
Alexander III
Nicholas II
Catherine the Great
Alexander I
Who killed the last Tsar of Russia?
It was the communists!
It was the Jews!
It was the Catholics!
It was the Nazis!
Which of these was a key motivation for starting a pogrom?
Making sure the Jews were not able to take Russian land
Trying to unite Christians of differnent denominations
Creating a scapegoat for all sorts of issues
Depriving the town of meaningful resources
Which of the following was the location of a major historical pogrom in the Pale of Settlement?
Rodosz
Ekaterinoslav
Kielce
Odessa
What was the primary destination of people leaving the shtetl?
The United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Ireland)
Australia (Down Under)
USA (The Goldene Medina)
Palestine (Eretz Yisrael)
