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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 13 Opposite the House of Sculptures.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lara do when Pasha joins the Russian army?
(a) She becomes a secretary.
(b) She works in her mother's bakery.
(c) She becomes a teacher.
(d) She becomes a nurse.

2. How does Lara plan to end her affair with Komarovsky?
(a) She plans to shoot him.
(b) She plans to tell him over dinner.
(c) She plans to tell him in a letter.
(d) She plans to run away.

3. Who cares for Yuri while he is ill?
(a) Evgraf.
(b) Lara.
(c) Uncle Nikolai.
(d) The seamstress.

4. What does Yuri write in his notebook about his half brother, Evgraf?
(a) He knows virtually nothing about his brother.
(b) He does not feel he can trust his brother.
(c) He wonders if Tonya is in love with Evgraf.
(d) He wishes he could repay Evgraf for his kindness.

5. Why does Lara admire Yuri?
(a) Because he is kinder than Pasha.
(b) Because he has not let political propaganda infect his soul.
(c) Because he is a romantic poet.
(d) Because he is a good provider.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yuri tell Commissar Strelnikov he wants out of life?

2. What mode of transportation does Yuri and his family use as they leave for the town of Varykino in the early spring?

3. Why does Lara leave the front line and return to Moscow?

4. While traveling to see Lara, who conscripts Yuri as a field doctor?

5. What does Yuri barter for food and goods from a central distribution center?

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