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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 was the woman dressed in?

2. What was it impossible for Katerina to imagine?

3. What did Ivan do when his father chastised him for spending time on running?

4. What did Vanya's family lose?

5. Who had sent the bear after Katerina?

Short Essay Questions

1. What problem does Ivan come across when he tries to justify his impending marriage to Ruth to Katerina?

2. What issue did Ivan have once he had hit the bear?

3. How did Ivan justify what he had seen and heard in the forest as a child?

4. Why did Vanya finally decide to let the Mohel circumcise him?

5. What bothered Ivan about his relationship with his father and why?

6. What had Yaga done to convey her message to her late husband?

7. In what ways was the young man that had rescued the princess not what Yaga had suspected?

8. What did Baba Yaga wish to gain from Bear?

9. Why was it unrealistic that Vanya was imagining Abraham in the forest and countryside? Why didn't this stop him from his fantasy?

10. What did Vanya's parents fear? What did they decide to do about it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In essay form, discuss the benefits and drawbacks to living in either the modern or the ancient worlds described in the book. Imagine that you are attempting to persuade one of the children to your perspective.

Essay Topic 2

Taina no longer exists in Ivan's time, and this comes as a great shock to Katerina. Utilizing scholarly history articles, suggest what may have happened to Taina based on its location, religion and time frame.

Essay Topic 3

Although towards the end, Ivan is concerned that he has changed history, he remembers instances in which Ivan is mentioned several times in the modern versions of the fairy tales. Suggest reasons why Ivan wasn't concerned about this the moment he went back in time, although it is a consideration often mentioned in literature regarding time travel of any kind.

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