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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting for Act II?

2. What has supposedly taken place at the beginning of Act III?

3. Who stands in the door to the drawing room at the end of Act III?

4. What does Lyubov collapses into at the end of Act III?

5. What does Dunyasha do repeatedly throughout the play?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the relationship between Dunyasha and Yepikhodov?

5. What is the relationship between Yasha and Dunyasha?

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

7. How does Trofimov feel about the upper classes?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the plot structure of The Cherry Orchard. Where does the exposition transition into rising action? Where is the climax of the narrative? What does the reader/audience learn in the falling action and denouement of the story?

Essay Topic 2

How is Chekhov's own life reflected within The Cherry Orchard? Which character do you think reflects Chekhov's personal point of view? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the playwright's use of irony in The Cherry Orchard. What is an example of verbal irony from the text? What dramatic irony is employed? What situational irony appears? What is the effect of each example?

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