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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. How long did Yuri's affair with Lara last?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Two months.
(c) Two years.
(d) Two days.

2. While living across the street from the house of sculptures in Chapter 13, why do Lara and Yuri feel they must leave Yuriatin soon?
(a) Eventually the authorities will consider them enemies of the state.
(b) There is not enough food or work for them in Yuriatin.
(c) Yuri refuses to register with the government.
(d) They feel the seamstress is plotting revenge.

3. Why did the soldiers of the Provisional Government bayonet a young idealist after he had already been killed by a rifle shot?
(a) He spoke to them.
(b) They were angry.
(c) They wanted to make sure he was really dead.
(d) He moved his arm.

4. What happens to Lara after Yuri leaves and is conscripted?
(a) Her husband takes her daughter away to Moscow.
(b) She has neither husband nor lover, and is left with only her daughter.
(c) She follows Yuri into service as a field nurse.
(d) Her husband forgives her affair and they resume family life.

5. Yuri discovers that Lara has been reading books about which political philosophy?
(a) Marxism.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Communism.
(d) Socialism.

Short Answer Questions

1. While on his journey to Varykino, what happens to Yuri as he walks near a river?

2. In the spring, Yuri's half brother, Evgraf, brings a sick peasant in for treatment. What is Yuri's diagnosis?

3. Why does Yuri believe that Varykino would be a good place to resettle his family?

4. What part of life in Varykino does Yuri enjoy the most?

5. During World War I, which country invaded Russia?

(see the answer key)

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