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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 17 The Poems of Yuri Zhivago.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 14, why is Strelnikov in hiding?
(a) He is depressed and has deserted the army.
(b) He faces a court martial and possible execution.
(c) He is hiding from the angry husband of a lover.
(d) He is a government spy.

2. Why does Yuri love Lara?
(a) She has pretty eyes.
(b) She is wonderful cook and Yuri feels at home with her.
(c) She arouses a new passion in him.
(d) They like the same authors.

3. What does Yuri do while alone in Mikulitsyn's house?
(a) He sleeps late and writes about politics.
(b) He repairs holes the rats have made.
(c) He rises early and tends the garden.
(d) He drinks vodka and writes about Lara.

4. Why does Yuri want to borrow scissors from a nearby seamstress?
(a) To repair his coat.
(b) To make a shirt out of the curtains in his room.
(c) To trim his hair and beard.
(d) To make Lara a gift.

5. In the spring, Yuri's half brother, Evgraf, brings a sick peasant in for treatment. What is Yuri's diagnosis?
(a) Cancer.
(b) A staph infection.
(c) Lupus.
(d) The measles.

Short Answer Questions

1. The last chapter of Dr. Zhivago contains twenty-four poems supposedly written by Yuri Zhivago. Which two characters read these poems in the story?

2. Whom does Tonia tell Gordon and Dudorov is her step-father?

3. Which element of nature does Yuri describe as: "Makes the country house and the forest rock . . . so that in its desolation / It may find words to fashion a lullaby for you."

4. What does Yuri tell Commissar Strelnikov he wants out of life?

5. Where do Lara and Pasha live in the beginning of their marriage?

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