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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 17 The Poems of Yuri Zhivago.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Lara after Yuri leaves and is conscripted?
(a) She has neither husband nor lover, and is left with only her daughter.
(b) Her husband forgives her affair and they resume family life.
(c) She follows Yuri into service as a field nurse.
(d) Her husband takes her daughter away to Moscow.

2. While traveling to Varykino, who travels with Yuri and his family?
(a) A platoon of soldiers.
(b) Uncle Nikolai.
(c) A group of government officials.
(d) A mixture of professionals, conscripted workers, and peasants.

3. What type of relationship does Yuri have with Marina?
(a) She is the town seamstress.
(b) She is Vasia's wife.
(c) She is his common-law wife.
(d) She is his new head nurse.

4. What is the name of the man who now runs the estate once owned by Yuri's father?
(a) Sergeevich.
(b) Mikulitsyn.
(c) Nikulitsyn.
(d) Nikolai.

5. What illness does Yuri see developing frequently as a result of the constant warfare?
(a) Smallpox.
(b) Typhoid.
(c) Mental illness.
(d) Measles.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the book, Pasternak develops a parallel between the changes occurring in Russia and what other historical event?

2. Whom does Tonia tell Gordon and Dudorov is her step-father?

3. Whom does Yuri see in Yuriatin?

4. Whom does Yuri tell his wife he is working with in Meliuzeievo?

5. What eases Pamphil's symptoms?

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