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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lara plan to end her affair with Komarovsky?
(a) She plans to tell him in a letter.
(b) She plans to shoot him.
(c) She plans to tell him over dinner.
(d) She plans to run away.

2. While traveling to see Lara, who conscripts Yuri as a field doctor?
(a) Members of the Green forces.
(b) Members of the White Army.
(c) Members of the Red Army.
(d) Members of the Provisional Government.

3. During World War I, Dr. Zhivago, serves in a hospital in which city?
(a) Yuriatin.
(b) Leningrad.
(c) Petrograd.
(d) Moscow.

4. Yura is studying to be a doctor. What else does he want to achieve in this life?
(a) He wants to study art.
(b) He wants to teach at the University.
(c) He wants to write a grand novel.
(d) He wants to become wealthy.

5. In the spring, Yuri's half brother, Evgraf, brings a sick peasant in for treatment. What is Yuri's diagnosis?
(a) The measles.
(b) Lupus.
(c) A staph infection.
(d) Cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who seduces Lara when she is 16?

2. Yuri discovers that Lara has been reading books about which political philosophy?

3. Lara's mother, Amalia Karlovna Guishar, takes over what type of shop?

4. In the first chapter, many workers protest working conditions by leaving their jobs. What word is used in the book to describe that type of protest?

5. What form of government does the new ruling party in October first establish?

Short Essay Questions

1. Everyone must trade or pay for the food that is sold illegally behind the train stations. Why doesn't the soldier have to pay for the food he eats?

2. Describe the type of work Yuri and his family do to survive when they first arrive in Varykino.

3. With the Russian economy in ruins, how do people survive?

4. Why does Yura faint in the garden?

5. How does Lara feel about Komarovsky later in their relationship?

6. What is in Yuri's notebook?

7. Describe some of the social classes of people who are on the train and how they interact with each other.

8. Describe the beginning Lara and Pasha's relationship.

9. Describe how the snow is cleared from the train tracks.

10. How do Yuri and his family survive the harsh winter?

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