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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Strelnikov's secret identity?
(a) Strelnikov is actually Yuri's uncle, Nikolai.
(b) Strelnikov is actually Ivan Ivanovich.
(c) Strelnikov is actually Yuri's half brother, Evgraf.
(d) Strelnikov is actually Lara's husband, Pasha.

2. Who seduces Lara when she is 16?
(a) Vedeniapin.
(b) Duplyanka.
(c) Komarovsky.
(d) Zhivago.

3. In chapter one, Yura's father jumps from which type of vehicle?
(a) A truck.
(b) An airplane.
(c) A train.
(d) A bus.

4. Where on the estate are the Zhivagos allowed to live?
(a) In a cramped barn.
(b) In the main building.
(c) In a small building on the grounds.
(d) They are not allowed to live on the estate.

5. During Yuri's trip to Varykino, which group succeeds in taking control of the northern mountains?
(a) The White Army takes control away from the Red Army.
(b) The Provisional Government takes control away from the Germans.
(c) The Red Army takes control away from the White Army.
(d) The Bolsheviks take control away from the Communists.

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

7. While in Varykino, what does Yuri suspect about Tonia?
(a) That she is pregnant.
(b) That she is unhappy.
(c) That she is having an affair with Mikulitsyn.
(d) That she is ill.

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

9. What are Yuri's primary concerns during the winter?
(a) Having enough books and paper for the students.
(b) Having enough food and fuel to survive.
(c) Having enough patients for his practice.
(d) Having enough money for tobacco and liquor.

10. Yura is also called what name?
(a) Yurinski.
(b) Yuri.
(c) Yurinovich.
(d) Yuca.

11. After returning to Moscow from Meliuzeievo, what does Yuri learn about his uncle, Nikolai Nikolaievich?
(a) His uncle has joined the Bolsheviks.
(b) His uncle was killed during a demonstration.
(c) His uncle had moved to France.
(d) His uncle sold the family home.

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

13. During his journey to Varykino, Yuri realizes he knows the leader of one of the powerful political forces in Russia. Which political force does Galiullin lead?
(a) The Red Army.
(b) The Communist Party.
(c) The Provisional Government.
(d) The White Army.

14. Why was Yura poor?
(a) Yura's father could not find work.
(b) The government had taken all their posessions.
(c) Yura's father was on strike.
(d) Yura's father had squandered the family fortune.

15. What type of school is set up in Yuri and Tonia's house?
(a) An elementary school.
(b) A medical school.
(c) An officer training school.
(d) An agricultural school.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Kologrivov help Lara find?

3. Who joins Dr. Zhivago at the front line to tend wounded soldiers?

4. Whom does Yuri see in Yuriatin?

5. Lara and Pasha have a daughter. What is the child's name?

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