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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 3 - 4 The Sventitsky's Christmas Party and The Hour of the Inevitable.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Lara leave the front line and return to Moscow?
(a) Lara learns that her mother is dying.
(b) She thinks that Pasha is dead.
(c) She is offered a job at the hospital in Moscow.
(d) Pasha's tour of duty is over.

2. After watching a worker's demonstration, what job does Pasha Antipov want?
(a) He wants to be a teacher.
(b) He wants to be chief of police.
(c) He wants to be a lawyer.
(d) He wants to be the fire chief.

3. While Lara works as a housewife and teaches at the gymnasium, what does Pasha do?
(a) He works as a schoolteacher.
(b) He works in an ammunition factory.
(c) He joins the protests and becomes a political activist.
(d) He works in Madame Guishar's bakery.

4. Who seduces Lara when she is 16?
(a) Komarovsky.
(b) Duplyanka.
(c) Zhivago.
(d) Vedeniapin.

5. During the Presnia uprising, which character meets and falls in love with Lara?
(a) Nikolai.
(b) Yura.
(c) Kamarovsky.
(d) Pasha.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Yura in the gardens of the Duplyanka estate?

2. Upon the advice of her lawyer, where does Amalia Karlovna Guishar send Lara?

3. In chapter one, Yura's father jumps from which type of vehicle?

4. In the first chapter, many workers protest working conditions by leaving their jobs. What word is used in the book to describe that type of protest?

5. Which character does Lara treat in the hospital?

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