Q 01/05

What is Tevye's occupation?

A) Butcher

B) Tailor

C) Milkman

D) Bookseller

Answer · why

C) Milkman

He is the village milkman, delivering his dairy from a cart he pulls himself because his horse has gone lame.

Q 02/05

What is the name of the fictional village where the musical is set?

A) Boyberik

B) Yehupetz

C) Anatevka

D) Kasrilevke

Answer · why

C) Anatevka

Anatevka is a shtetl in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in 1905, and its name is the title of the villagers' lament when they are expelled.

Q 03/05

Whose Yiddish short stories inspired the musical?

A) Chaim Potok

B) Isaac Bashevis Singer

C) I. L. Peretz

D) Sholem Aleichem

Answer · why

D) Sholem Aleichem

Sholem Aleichem, pen name of Solomon Rabinovich, wrote the stories in Yiddish from 1894; his own stage version was performed in Yiddish in 1919, after...

Q 04/05

Who wrote the music for Fiddler on the Roof?

A) Jerry Bock

B) Sheldon Harnick

C) Joseph Stein

D) Jerome Robbins

Answer · why

A) Jerry Bock

Jerry Bock wrote the music, and his partnership with lyricist Sheldon Harnick had begun with a 1958 flop, The Body Beautiful.

Q 05/05

How many daughters do Tevye and Golde have?

A) Seven

B) Three

C) Four

D) Five

Answer · why

D) Five

The couple have five daughters: Tzeitel, Hodel, Chava, Shprintze and Bielke, of whom Tzeitel, Hodel and Chava carry the marriage plots.

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