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Y9 Shtetl Review Quiz

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the name of the school that boys attended in the shtetl?

a)

The cheder

b)

The hadar

c)

The radar

d)

The chacham

2.

What do you call the organisation in charge of each shtetl?

(a)  

3.

A khapper is someone who...

a)

steals boys and makes them into slaves

b)

steals boys and makes them into matzah

c)

steals boys and makes them into soldiers

d)

steals girls and marries them

4.

What was the main language spoken in the shtetls?

a)

Hebrew

b)

Russian

c)

Irish

d)

Yiddish

5.

As far as tsars go, how was Alexander II for the Jews of the Pale of Settlement?

a)

Bad for the first half of his life, good for the second half

b)

Worse than any of the other tsars

c)

Fantastic - he abolished the Pale of Settlement

d)

Better than Nicholas I, but that wasn't hard

6.

Which of the following was NOT one of the major 'gender roles' of the shtetl?

a)

Papa

b)

Daughters

c)

Yente

d)

Father

7.

Who set up the Pale of Settlement?

a)

Alexander III

b)

Nicholas II

c)

Catherine the Great

d)

Alexander I

8.

Who killed the last Tsar of Russia?

a)

It was the communists!

b)

It was the Jews!

c)

It was the Catholics!

d)

It was the Nazis!

9.

Which of these was a key motivation for starting a pogrom?

a)

Making sure the Jews were not able to take Russian land

b)

Trying to unite Christians of differnent denominations

c)

Creating a scapegoat for all sorts of issues

d)

Depriving the town of meaningful resources

10.

Which of the following was the location of a major historical pogrom in the Pale of Settlement?

a)

Rodosz

b)

Ekaterinoslav

c)

Kielce

d)

Odessa

11.

What was the primary destination of people leaving the shtetl?

a)

The United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Ireland)

b)

Australia (Down Under)

c)

USA (The Goldene Medina)

d)

Palestine (Eretz Yisrael)