Test Your Yiddish Skills (4)

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. Jake, who emigrated from Europe, is reminiscing about his past. He says, "Before goldene medina..." Before what?

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2. All of the following words describe some sort of confusion, except

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3. If we described a renovated Catskill hotel as "mit ale pistshefkes," we say that it offers

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4. A clumsy person is a...

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5. Shlomo was a good kid but a poor scholar. His Talmud teachers regarded him as a

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6. Said the __________ proudly to his bubbe, “When I graduate, I’ll become a doctor of philosophy!” Said his bubbe, kvelling, “Wonderful! But what kind of disease is ‘philosophy’?”

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7. A really cheap and flimsy item is referred to as ...

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8. Two Jews were leaving the movie, which had turned out to be extremely bloody, needlessly violent, and lacking any real plot. One said to the other,

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9. Nathan set out on the subway for Fulton Street. Asking for directions, he mixed up “street” and “avenue” and found himself at Fulton Avenue, miles from his destination. He called to explain his non-arrival, saying he was ...

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10. Irv was known as a balbatisher attorney. He was known for being

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