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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 is going on during this particular time period of the scene?
(a) Easter
(b) Carnival Week
(c) Saints Week
(d) Christmas

2. Who plays the piano and entertains the others as a result?
(a) Irina
(b) Tusenbach
(c) Vershinin
(d) Andrei

3. Who, according to Natasha, speaks very bad French?
(a) Andrei
(b) Olga
(c) Irina
(d) Masha

4. Who have the sisters been teasing for being in love with a girl who is engaged?
(a) Andrei
(b) Vershinin
(c) Tusenbach
(d) Solyony

5. Who announces they're staying to lunch when the arrival of another character occurs?
(a) Olga
(b) Andrei
(c) Vershinin
(d) Masha

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Irina now work as revealed at the start of Act 2?

2. Who seems to have a hearing problem as evidenced by the need for other characters to repeat themselves?

3. Which of the sisters knows Italian as an additional language to Russian?

4. Who thinks it's useless to know so many languages?

5. Who has been named secretary to the council run by Protopopov?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the story Vershinin tells to Masha?

2. Who seems to be going out, as indicated by their style of dress in the opening of this scene?

3. When Irina says she hopes to see Fedotik and Rode again, Fedotik says they will not. Why is that?

4. Who are now married and have a child together?

5. What does Kulygin do when he enters at the beginning of this scene?

6. What is the subject of Vershinin's long speech?

7. Where does Olga long to be?

8. What is the rumor that is bothering Irina?

9. What does Chebutykin reveal to Irina in the end?

10. What does Anfisa announce when she arrives at the beginning of Act 1, Part 2?

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