Q 01/05

What is Tevye's occupation?

A) Butcher

B) Tailor

C) Milkman

D) Bookseller

Answer · why

C) Milkman

He pulls his own cart because his horse is lame, and asks God who it would hurt if he were a rich man.

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

It sits in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in or around 1905. Yehupetz is the author's fictional name for Kyiv.

Q 03/05

Whose short stories about 'Tevye the Dairyman' inspired the musical?

A) Chaim Potok

B) Isaac Bashevis Singer

C) I. L. Peretz

D) Sholem Aleichem

Answer · why

D) Sholem Aleichem

He wrote them in Yiddish between 1894 and 1914. His own dramatisation was staged in Yiddish in 1919, after his death.

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

Sheldon Harnick wrote the lyrics and Joseph Stein the book. Bock and Harnick's other shows include Fiorello! and She Loves Me.

Q 05/05

How many daughters do Tevye and Golde have?

A) Seven

B) Three

C) Four

D) Five

Answer · why

D) Five

Tzeitel, Hodel, Chava, Shprintze and Bielke. Only the three eldest have marriage plots.

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