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

2. What does the tree represent to Yuri?
(a) It is reminder of his despair.
(b) It is a symbol of something better in the world.
(c) Nothing, it is just another tree in the forest.
(d) It is a reminder of his family.

3. While living across the street from the house of sculptures in Chapter 13, why do Lara and Yuri feel they must leave Yuriatin soon?
(a) There is not enough food or work for them in Yuriatin.
(b) Yuri refuses to register with the government.
(c) They feel the seamstress is plotting revenge.
(d) Eventually the authorities will consider them enemies of the state.

4. In Chapter 13, what new information does Lara give Yuri?
(a) The government is looking for him.
(b) He has a new son named Misha.
(c) He has a new daughter named Masha.
(d) She is pregnant.

5. Why does Yuri want to borrow scissors from a nearby seamstress?
(a) To trim his hair and beard.
(b) To make Lara a gift.
(c) To make a shirt out of the curtains in his room.
(d) To repair his coat.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Yuri make money during the NEP period?

2. What type of tree does Yuri discover growing near the camp on a piece of high ground?

3. In Chapter 13, what type of criminal do some people in Yuriatin suspect Yuri of being?

4. What does the blood on the snow outside of Mikulitsyn's house remind Yuri of?

5. In Part 2, Chapter 14, who annoys Yuri and Lara with his return to Yuriatin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Yuri choose to compare the drops of blood in the snow with rowan berries?

2. Why are Gordon and Dudorov interested in Yuri's book of poetry?

3. What might have been done to prevent Pamphil's insanity?

4. In Chapter 13, while in Yuritan, what does Lara want to have happen to her relationship with Yuri?

5. Describe what Yuri finds in Lara's house when he returns to Yuriatin.

6. What do Yuri and Lara do when they hear a rumor that the Executive Committee plans to arrest them?

7. Describe what happens when Yuri breaks Red Cross rules and uses a rifle.

8. Lara and Yuri discover they share a common nemesis. Who is this person and what has he/she done to them?

9. Describe Yuri's relationship with Marina.

10. In the Epilogue of Dr. Zhivago, Gordon and Dudorov discuss a woman named Christina. What has Christina done?

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