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Both the D0 and CDF experiments at Fermilab Tevatron collider at[radical]s= 1.8 TeV have accumulated over 50pb[sup -1] of data. Each experiment collected more than 50,000 W[yields] l+v and 5000 Z[yields] l+[bar l] candidates for each lepton species (e and[mu]). Using this large data sample of W and Z candidates, the two experiments are actively testing perturbative QCD predictions. Among the studies that are in progress, preliminary results of W/Z+jets characteristics, multiplicity distributions of associated jets, and a study on the determination of the strong coupling constant using the ratio of the W+1 jet to W+ 0 jet cross sections are presented.