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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the common complaint about Gaev?
(a) He drinks all the time.
(b) He sings too much.
(c) He is in love with the maid.
(d) He talks too much.

2. How old is Lyubov's son when he dies?
(a) 14.
(b) 11.
(c) 16.
(d) 7.

3. What time does the auction end?
(a) 6 o'clock.
(b) 9 o'clock.
(c) 8 o'clock.
(d) 4 o'clock.

4. What effect comes from having the railway closer to the estate?
(a) It means that Gaev can travel to and from work.
(b) It means that Lyubov can marry the stationmaster.
(c) It will make selling the cherries more convenient.
(d) It will be easier to lease out summer cottages.

5. What disgusts Firs about the guests in Act III?
(a) They are snobbish.
(b) They are too rowdy.
(c) They are not nobility.
(d) They don't tip.

6. Which character says if the cherry orchard must be sold, "then sell me with it"?
(a) Lyubov.
(b) Anya.
(c) Varya.
(d) Pishchik.

7. Why did Lyubov buy a villa?
(a) To replace the estate.
(b) To rent it out for profit.
(c) To give her daughter on her wedding day.
(d) To take care of her lover who was ill.

8. Which character is in love with Trofimov?
(a) Varya.
(b) Lyubov.
(c) Dunyasha.
(d) Anya.

9. Whose grandparents and parents are slaves on the estate?
(a) Charlotta's.
(b) Lyubov's.
(c) Lopakhin's.
(d) Varya's.

10. Who speaks to the bookshelf and to nature?
(a) Charlotta.
(b) Yepikhodov.
(c) Anya.
(d) Gaev.

11. What has supposedly taken place at the beginning of Act III?
(a) The auction of the estate.
(b) The arrival of the Countess.
(c) The departure of Anya.
(d) The estate has been divided into summer cottages.

12. What does Yepikhodov break in Act III?
(a) A billiard ball.
(b) A table.
(c) The bookcase.
(d) A billiard cue.

13. Who says, "My father was a peasant, an idiot?"
(a) Yasha.
(b) Lopakhin.
(c) Lyubov.
(d) Charlotta.

14. In Act II, why does Gaev say he must go to town the following day?
(a) He is selling cherries.
(b) He has a meeting with someone who may give him a loan.
(c) He is buying the estate.
(d) He is getting married.

15. Which character leads Lopakhin from the drawing room in Act III?
(a) Pishchik.
(b) Gaev.
(c) Lyobov.
(d) Varya.

Short Answer Questions

1. What becomes of Lyubov's lover?

2. What does Firs refer to as "the troubles" during Act II?

3. Who is expected to propose to Varya?

4. Who first says the orchard is sold today in Act III?

5. What animal is Pishchik compared to in Act III?

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