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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. Why did the soldiers of the Provisional Government bayonet a young idealist after he had already been killed by a rifle shot?
(a) He moved his arm.
(b) He spoke to them.
(c) They wanted to make sure he was really dead.
(d) They were angry.

2. When the Russian economy collapses, which two political groups begin to fight for power?
(a) The Bolsheviks and the Marxists.
(b) The Provisional Government and the Communists.
(c) The Provisional Government and the Socialists.
(d) The Provisional Government and the Bolsheviks.

3. Why does Lara fear arrest?
(a) Because Yuri refuses to register with the government.
(b) Because she buys goods from the black market.
(c) Because she made the seamstress angry.
(d) Because she is related to Pasha.

4. Yura is studying to be a doctor. What else does he want to achieve in this life?
(a) He wants to write a grand novel.
(b) He wants to become wealthy.
(c) He wants to study art.
(d) He wants to teach at the University.

5. Several conflicts are present in the book. Which struggle best describes the conflict between the warring political parties?
(a) The struggle of territory versus common property.
(b) The struggle of personal freedoms versus the common good.
(c) The struggle of capitalism versus communalism.
(d) The struggle of order versus chaos.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Pamphil after the discovery of the mutilated man?

2. Whom does Yuri hope to find upon his return to Yuriatin?

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

4. Yuri returns to Moscow during the Soviet NEP period. What does NEP stand for?

5. Yuri discovers that Lara has been reading books about which political philosophy?

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