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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Trofimov suggest that Anya do with the keys of the household?
2. What disgusts Firs about the guests in Act III?
3. Which character says, "We are above love"?
4. What is Lyubov doing at the end of Act III?
5. Which character has a dog?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Trofimov feel about the upper classes?
2. Who is involved in a "love triangle" in the play? How?
3. Who is the comic relief in the play? How does this play out?
4. What is the relationship between Dunyasha and Yepikhodov?
5. Who performs magic tricks? What tricks does he/she perform? Where did he/she learn to perform them?
6. What does Firs say in Act III about the guests at the estate? How are they different from the guests before?
7. What is the relationship between Yasha and Dunyasha?
8. Which character is the most "socialist?" How?
9. Describe the setting of Act II. What characters are in the opening of the scene, and what are they doing?
10. What is the irony of the landowners in The Cherry Orchard?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the playwright's use of irony in The Cherry Orchard. What is an example of verbal irony from the text? What dramatic irony is employed? What situational irony appears? What is the effect of each example?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the character arcs of the main characters in The Cherry Orchard. How have these characters changed from the beginning of the play to the end? What has incurred these changes? Do you think the characters have improved their situations? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
The characters of Lyubov and Lopakhin are central to the action in The Cherry Orchard. Compare and contrast the characteristics of Lyubov and Lopakhin. How do their backgrounds affect who they are today? What do we know about them based on their appearances and their actions? How do their actions or in-actions affect the outcome of the play?
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