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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 14 Return to Varykino.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lara blame for Pasha's abandonment of her?
(a) She blames her own behavior.
(b) She blames Pasha's infidelity with the seamstress.
(c) She blames Yuri.
(d) She blames the revolution and civil war.

2. When Yura and his uncle live in a house owned by the Gromekos, which character also lives in the house?
(a) Misha Gordon.
(b) Lara Guishar.
(c) Ivan Ivanovich.
(d) Pasha Antipov.

3. What does the tree represent to Yuri?
(a) It is reminder of his despair.
(b) It is a symbol of something better in the world.
(c) It is a reminder of his family.
(d) Nothing, it is just another tree in the forest.

4. 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) They feel the seamstress is plotting revenge.
(b) Yuri refuses to register with the government.
(c) Eventually the authorities will consider them enemies of the state.
(d) There is not enough food or work for them in Yuriatin.

5. Yuri receives a letter from Tonia. Where does he learn she has gone?
(a) She has been deported to France.
(b) She has moved to Leningrad.
(c) She has been living in Moscow.
(d) She has been deported to Italy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Lara admire Yuri?

2. What illness affects Yuri and most of the city in the winter?

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

4. During World War I, Dr. Zhivago, serves in a hospital in which city?

5. What happens to four of the conscripted workers one night as Yuri and his companions enter the mountains on their way to Varykino?

(see the answer key)

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