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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 two things Katerina wanted were in the same place?

2. What did Mikola wish that he had written down?

3. What do people say about Baba Yaga's new house?

4. What did Ivan figure was the only merciful thing he could do for Katerina?

5. What was Katerina expecting?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it an issue to call out Katerina's name and why must Ivan do so?

2. How did Bear figure that things had worked out pretty evenly?

3. What happened when Ivan attempted to eat the chicken that Ruth brought, and what happened as a result?

4. How did the fire work in Ivan and Sergei's favor?

5. Why did Ruth think she had the upper hand when she saw Katerina?

6. What was the effect of the weapons of the future against the peasants of the Widow's army?

7. What shamed Katerina about the airplane, how did she react, and how did she rebuke herself for doing so?

8. What lie does Yaga tell Katerina that she knows is a lie immediately?

9. What was the difference in opinion as to why Ivan listened to Katerina once he had awakened her?

10. What information does Bear give to Katerina to help her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Katerina and Ivan's problem regarding the bridges and their mortality is valid. In essay form, discuss the argument they had about the bridges and some problems that their children might have in either world as a result of having been children of both.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the differing opinions of things from Katerina and Ivan's time. Explain how, as a being of both time frames, Marek aka Mozhaiski is a good intermediary to explain how things work.

Essay Topic 3

Ivan realizes that the fairy tales that Sergei had written down were the echos of older religions. In essay form, discuss ancient fairy tales in this light, and attempt to draw some parallels from ancient fairy tales and pagan religions, or conversely, the modern versions of the fairy tales and Christianity.

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