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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 Lyubov doing at the end of Act III?
(a) Weeping.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Singing.
(d) Magic tricks.

2. What did Firs say that the late master treated everyone with for illness?
(a) Candy.
(b) Cod Liver oil.
(c) Champagne.
(d) Sealing wax.

3. Trofimov suggests that Lyubov do what?
(a) Go to Paris.
(b) Look truth in the eye.
(c) Send for the Countess.
(d) Divide the cherry orchard into lots.

4. Which character implies the precursor to socialist thought in Russia?
(a) Anya.
(b) Trofimov.
(c) Lyubov.
(d) Pishchik.

5. What disgusts Firs about the guests in Act III?
(a) They are snobbish.
(b) They are too rowdy.
(c) They are not nobility.
(d) They don't tip.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yepikhodov break in Act III?

2. Whom does Lopakhin claim was kind to him when he was young?

3. What does Trofimov suggest that Anya do with the keys of the household?

4. Who arrives at the estate near the end of Act II?

5. How much was the estate auctioned for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lyubov feel about her lover? How does she show her feelings?

2. Who is the Countess? How does she play into the plot? Where does she live?

3. Who performs magic tricks? What tricks does he/she perform? Where did he/she learn to perform them?

4. How does Trofimov feel about the upper classes?

5. What are Lyubov's "sins," referred to by her in Act II?

6. What event is taking place in the beginning of Act III? What purpose does this event serve to the story?

7. Describe the setting of Act II. What characters are in the opening of the scene, and what are they doing?

8. Does Firs have loyalty to the family? How do we know?

9. What is the relationship between Dunyasha and Yepikhodov?

10. What is the irony of the landowners in The Cherry Orchard?

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