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

2. The book begins with what type of scene?
(a) A party.
(b) A funeral.
(c) A wedding.
(d) A demonstration.

3. What is the name of the independent republic that Blazheiko sets up and backs with a force of deserters from the 212th Infantry?
(a) Novgorod.
(b) Leningrad.
(c) Yuriatin.
(d) Zybushino.

4. What illness affects Yuri and most of the city in the winter?
(a) Smallpox.
(b) Typhus.
(c) Measles.
(d) Influenza.

5. Where does fighting begin in the 1917 Russian revolution?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Yuriatin.
(c) Kazan.
(d) St. Petersburg.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Yuri want to borrow scissors from a nearby seamstress?

3. What does Yuri write in his notebook about his half brother, Evgraf?

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

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

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