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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 does Lyubov collapses into at the end of Act III?
(a) Anya.
(b) Trofimov.
(c) A chair.
(d) The floor.

2. Whom does Lopakhin claim was kind to him when he was young?
(a) His mother.
(b) His father.
(c) Pishchik.
(d) Lyubov.

3. In Act II, why does Gaev say he must go to town the following day?
(a) He is selling cherries.
(b) He is buying the estate.
(c) He has a meeting with someone who may give him a loan.
(d) He is getting married.

4. At the end of Act II, where does Anya go to avoid being found in the garden?
(a) Into the nursery.
(b) Into the orchard.
(c) Into the woods.
(d) To the river.

5. Which character says, "We should stop admiring ourselves. We should just work, and that is all"?
(a) Trofimov.
(b) Pishchik.
(c) Charlotta.
(d) Lopakhin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is always mumbling?

2. To whom does Lyubov want Lopakhin to marry?

3. What has the Post-Office Clerk said to Dunyasha in Act III, causing her giddiness?

4. Whose grandparents and parents are slaves on the estate?

5. Who intends to pay the musicians at the end of Act III?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Deriganov? How does he/she play into the plot?

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

3. What is the emotional state of Lyubov at the end of Act III? Why?

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

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

6. How does Trofimov feel about the upper classes?

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

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

9. Who buys the estate at auction? How did this come about?

10. What does Firs say in Act III about the guests at the estate? How are they different from the guests before?

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