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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 8 - 9 Arrival and Varykino.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Yuri's wife, Tonia, receive for trading an embroidered towel?
(a) Half of a roasted chicken.
(b) Half of a loaf of bread.
(c) Half of a roasted turkey.
(d) Half of a roasted rabbit.

2. How do Yuri and his family finance their trip to Varykino?
(a) The family works together in a factory.
(b) Yuri's uncle Nikolai sends them money for tickets.
(c) The family gathers together items to sell or use for barter.
(d) Yuri finds work in one of the few remaining factories.

3. Why does Lara love Yuri?
(a) He is wealthy.
(b) He is willing to take her to America.
(c) He is an attractive man.
(d) He has a beautiful mind.

4. What does Commissar Strelnikov believe everyone must do during the Russian Civil War?
(a) People should use their rations wisely.
(b) People should help each other.
(c) Everyone should be prepared for the hardships of war.
(d) Everyone must choose a side.

5. Lara and Pasha have a daughter. What is the child's name?
(a) Katenka.
(b) Karolina.
(c) Kamalia.
(d) Katrina.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom does Yuri meet at the beginning of May?

3. Why does Yuri love Lara?

4. Why did the soldiers of the Provisional Government bayonet a young idealist after he had already been killed by a rifle shot?

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

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