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Review Quiz
While listening to the CD, follow along with this worksheet
and see how many questions you can answer.
1. In which year did the world begin to change with the French revolution?_________________________________
2. Who was the leader of the revolution?___________________________________________________________
3. Why did the people of France rebel?_____________________________________________________________
4. What does it mean to have equal rights?_________________________________________________________
5. What was Napoleon’s plan for the world? What was his promise?_______________________________________
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6. Did the czar of Russia treat the Yidden well? Prove your answer.________________________________________
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8. Why was the Alter Rebbe against Napoleon? Who did the Alter Rebbe want to win the war? Why? _____________
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9. What did the other tzadikim at that time believe?__________________________________________________
10. How did the Alter Rebbe plan to humble Napoleon?________________________________________________
11. What was revealed to Alter Rebbe on the first day of Rosh Hashanah?___________________________________
12. What caused the histalkus of the Alter Rebbe? _____________________________________________________
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13. On which day of the Hebrew calendar did Russia defeat Napoleon’s army?________________________________
14. On which Hebrew date did Napoleon cross the borders of Poland into Kovna and Vilna?_____________________
15. With how many soldiers did Napoleon arrive? Why is that number significant?_____________________________
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16. How many soldiers did the Russian army have?_____________________________________________________
17. When he crossed into Poland, what was the Alter Rebbe planning to do with his family? Was he happy about the
plan? Why or why not?
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18. What did the Alter Rebbe ask his Chassidim to begin singing? Why that song?_____________________________
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19. Who did the Alter Rebbe secretly instruct to spy on Napoleon’s army? Why did he choose his son to be a spy?_____
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20. Who offered to become a spy and what was his connection to the Alter Rebbe?____________________________
21. Who became a double agent?__________________________________________________________________
22. Describe the first French victory. In which city did it occur?___________________________________________
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23. What was the next plan of the French army? Why did it fail?___________________________________________
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24. What happened when Reb Moishe Meisles was looking over the French plans?_____________________________
25. In recognition of Reb Moishe Meisles’ dedication to saving Russia, what did the czar grant him? Did he ever utilize
that privilege? When?
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26. Who was captured as a spy? Did anything happen to him? Why?_______________________________________
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27. On which Hebrew date was the enemy on its way to Minsk?___________________________________________
28. To whom did the Alter Rebbe send a message connection to Napoleon’s advance?__________________________
29. Where was General Elianov stationed? Whose house did he stay in? For how long?__________________________
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30. In General Elianov’s conversation with the Alter Rebbe, what did he notice?_______________________________
31. Who did the Alter Rebbe consider to be a magician? Why did that concern the Alter Rebbe?__________________
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32. Why did the Alter Rebbe decide to travel to Krasna?_________________________________________________
33. On which Hebrew date did the French army reach the city of Krasna?___________________________________
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34. How many soldiers did the French army have in Krasna? How many soldiers did the Russian army have?_________
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35. Who personally came to visit the Alter Rebbe? What was his message? How did this family take the news?________
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37. When the Alter Rebbe traveled, how many wagons did he go with? How many Chassidim and their families traveled
with him? Who else came along?
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38. What did the czar send to the Alter Rebbe to protect him and his family? Why did he do that?________________
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39. What were the strict orders given to the soldiers?___________________________________________________
40. Which river did the Alter Rebbe want to cross immediately?___________________________________________
41. In the excitement of the rush to leave, what happened to one of the great-grandchildren of the Alter Rebbe?______
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42. After traveling two miles, what did the Alter Rebbe ask the soldiers to do? Why?___________________________
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43. When Napoleon arrived in the city of Liadi, what did he demand of the citizens? What was their response?_______
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44. What happened in the city of Krasna as soon as the Alter Rebbe left it?__________________________________
45. In Chai Elul, what Ruach Hakodesh did the Alter Rebbe have?__________________________________________
46. When traveling, in which wagon did the Alter Rebbe stay? Who was inside the first wagon? What was his job?_____
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47. What would the Alter Rebbe do at every crossroad?_________________________________________________
48. What grave mistake happened at one of the crossroads? How did the Alter Rebbe react?_____________________
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49. How did the heavenly court decide who would win the war? What was the Alter Rebbe’s plan to win?___________
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50. What was the name of the Maggid who wanted Napoleon to win? When did he realize that the Alter Rebbe had won?
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51. When the Alter Rebbe blew the shofar, what was going on in the city of Mazaisk, Borodino?__________________
52. At the Rosh Hashanah seuda, what did the Alter Rebbe tell his family?___________________________________
53. What did the Alter Rebbe tell his grandson the Tzemach Tzedek about his concern for White Russia?___________
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54. What did the Alter Rebbe guarantee on his very life?________________________________________________
55. Who will not allow Napoleon’s army to stay in Russia?_______________________________________________
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56. Who gave birth to a son? In what city was he born? What was the baby’s relationship to the Alter Rebbe?________
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57. Who fasted on Tes Vov Kislev and why?__________________________________________________________
58. Why was the Alter Rebbe concerned about the fleeing French army?____________________________________
59. On what date did the Alter Rebbe get the news that Napoleons army suffered a crushing defeat?_______________
60. When did the Alter Rebbe finally reach the city of Pienna?____________________________________________
61. At the villages on their journey, did the non-Jewish townspeople treat them nicely?_________________________
62. What miracle happened at one of the inns they stopped at?___________________________________________
63. What did the innkeeper decide to do with the room that the Alter Rebbe stayed in? When did he make an
exception?
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64. As soon as the Alter Rebbe arrived in the city of Pienna, what did he spend the next ten days doing?____________
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65. To how many cities did he decide to send Chassidim? What jobs were they assigned?________________________
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66. What date did the Alter Rebbe fall ill?____________________________________________________________
67. At that point, who did he call into his room? What did he give him and why?______________________________
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68. What question did the Alter Rebbe ask his grandson concerning the beams on the ceiling? Why? What did the
Tzemach Tzedek answer him?
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69. What was the last thing the Alter Rebbe did on this world? ___________________________________________
70. On Motzei Shabbos of which parsha was the Alter Rebbe’s histalkus (passing)? At approximately what time?______
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71. Why couldn’t the Alter Rebbe be buried in Pienna?_________________________________________________
72. Which city was the Alter Rebbe buried in and why?_________________________________________________
73. What happened to the Alter Rebbe’s carriage when he stopped off at one of the inns? Why?__________________
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74. What was the miracle that happened at one of the checkpoints?_______________________________________
75. In our days, how do we celebrate the histalkus of the Alter Rebbe? _____________________________________
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