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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 the setting for Act III?
(a) The nursery.
(b) The garden.
(c) The ballroom.
(d) The drawing room.
2. What Shakespearean play does Lopakhin quote to Varya after the passing of the stranger in Act II?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) Romeo and Juliet.
(c) Julius Caesar.
(d) King Lear.
3. Whom does Varya accidentally strike with a stick in Act III?
(a) Gaev.
(b) Lopakhin.
(c) Anya.
(d) Yepikhodov.
4. What is the setting for Act II?
(a) The ballroom.
(b) The nursery.
(c) A meadow on the estate.
(d) Lyubov's bedroom.
5. Who speaks to the bookshelf and to nature?
(a) Charlotta.
(b) Yepikhodov.
(c) Anya.
(d) Gaev.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is expected to propose to Varya?
2. Which character implies the precursor to socialist thought in Russia?
3. Which character says to Lyubov in Act III, "You still have your good, pure soul"?
4. What is Yepikhodov's nickname?
5. What does Lyubov say her husband died from?
Short Essay Questions
1. Trofimov is a character who speaks about philosophical ideals throughout the play. What are the concepts and ideals that he speaks about?
2. Describe the setting of Act II. What characters are in the opening of the scene, and what are they doing?
3. What are Lyubov's "sins," referred to by her in Act II?
4. What does Lopakhin suggest that Lyubov and Gaev do with the estate in Act II? What is their reaction?
5. Who is Deriganov? How does he/she play into the plot?
6. Does Firs have loyalty to the family? How do we know?
7. How does Trofimov feel about the upper classes?
8. Who is involved in a "love triangle" in the play? How?
9. What does Firs say in Act III about the guests at the estate? How are they different from the guests before?
10. Who is Pishchik? How does he know the family? What request does he make to Lyubov repeatedly in Act II?
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