Test Your Yiddish Skills (3)

Instructions:

• Click the dot next to each answer you think is correct.
• If you check the wrong answer, simply click the correct one to change it.
• When finished, enter your name and click the "Submit" button.
• Your answers will be checked and your score will appear on a new page where you can see how you did.

Questions

1. After a long day, your mother comes home and says, "I'm so verklempt I could plotz!" What is she saying?

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2. Lou accidently misses his turn off the highway. His wife turns to him and says, "Shlemiel!" What did she call him?

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3. In a synagogue, two people notice that the person in front of them is holding his prayer book the wrong way. One person turns to the other and says, "He's no lantsman." What does he mean?

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4. Saying "Oy!" or "Oy vey!" or "Oy vey izmeer!" shows frustration or annoyance. If one says "Oy gavult!" instead, what feeling is being expressed?

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5. David Colman ("Crayola Colors, But Kept Inside the Lines") wrote that men are wearing solidly colored pants, sweaters and blazers in tangerine, lemon, viridian, magenta and royal blue. According to this statement,

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6. What would a "yenta" most likely do?

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7. Which of these is not an insult?

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8. If you have a lot of guts, you have...

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9. Someone who is a real jerk is a...

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10. Esther told Sophie that she was certain that her baby would be a boy since her belly was so low. Sophie told her this was a

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