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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Irina and Olga want to be by the fall in terms of their living situation?
(a) Chicago
(b) New York
(c) Moscow
(d) Poland

2. Who rushes into the room and checks herself in the mirror, showing her obsession with herself?
(a) Natasha
(b) Olga
(c) Irina
(d) Masha

3. Whose Saint's Day is it when the play begins, causing her to be the central focus of the scene at first?
(a) Olga
(b) Irina
(c) Natasha
(d) Masha

4. Who says that while he has a German name, he is truly Russian at heart?
(a) Tusenbach
(b) Ferapont
(c) Solyony
(d) Andrei

5. Who mentions his wife and daughters at the end of the scene?
(a) Tusenbach
(b) Andrei
(c) Chebutykin
(d) Vershinin

Short Answer Questions

1. Who whistles quietly to herself as she reads during the opening part of the play?

2. To whom does Andrei propose marriage in the end of the scene, almost spontaneously?

3. Who died exactly a year ago to the day on this Saint's Day, according to the sisters and their memories?

4. Who makes a bad joke that is followed by an awkward silence?

5. How long ago did the family leave Moscow to come to the provincial area where they are now settled?

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