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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 do Charlotta's parents do for a living?
(a) Traveled and performed shows at fairs.
(b) Taught at a small school house.
(c) They were serfs.
(d) They were merchants.

2. Who speaks to the bookshelf and to nature?
(a) Yepikhodov.
(b) Charlotta.
(c) Gaev.
(d) Anya.

3. What is Lyubov's greatest flaw?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Spending money recklessly.
(c) Abusing the servants.
(d) Overeating.

4. What does Trofimov claim Lyubov's lover has done?
(a) Robbed her.
(b) Made her happy.
(c) Given him money.
(d) Broken her heart.

5. To whom does Dunyasha profess her love in Act II?
(a) Yasha.
(b) Gaev.
(c) Yepikhodov.
(d) Lopakhin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dunyasha do repeatedly throughout the play?

2. How many times does Varya say that Trofimov has been expelled from the university?

3. Which character says to Lyubov in Act III, "You still have your good, pure soul"?

4. How old does Trofimov claim to be?

5. What Shakespearean play does Lopakhin quote to Varya after the passing of the stranger in Act II?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lopakhin suggest that Lyubov and Gaev do with the estate in Act II? What is their reaction?

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

3. Who is Pishchik? How does he know the family? What request does he make to Lyubov repeatedly in Act II?

4. What is the emotional state of Lyubov at the beginning of Act III? Why?

5. Explain the argument between Lyubov and Trofimov in Act III.

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

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

8. Who is involved in a "love triangle" in the play? How?

9. Trofimov is a character who speaks about philosophical ideals throughout the play. What are the concepts and ideals that he speaks about?

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

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