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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Major-General Zhivago, Yuri's half brother Evgraf, is looking for something. What is it?
(a) Eyewitnesses who knew Christina.
(b) Black market dealers.
(c) Political dissidents.
(d) New recruits.

2. During the summer, how many jobs does Yuri take in order to make ends meet?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

3. In Part 2, Chapter 13, by the time Yuri returns to Yuriatin, which political party has gained control of the government?
(a) The Red Army.
(b) The White Army.
(c) The Communist party.
(d) The Green forces.

4. How do some of the villagers reconstruct their roofs?
(a) They use shingles from an old government building for roofing.
(b) They use turf for roofing.
(c) They cover their roofs with tarps from old army trucks.
(d) They use sheets of old metal for roofing.

5. Why does the White Army leave a mutilated man for the Red Army to discover?
(a) The mutilated man was a political leader.
(b) The mutilated man is a warning about war atrocities.
(c) The mutilated man is a spy.
(d) The mutilated man is a black market trader.

6. What type of relationship does Yuri have with Marina?
(a) She is the town seamstress.
(b) She is Vasia's wife.
(c) She is his common-law wife.
(d) She is his new head nurse.

7. How long does Yuri serve as a conscripted field doctor?
(a) Eight months.
(b) Eighteen weeks.
(c) Eighteen months.
(d) Two weeks.

8. What does Yuri discover about the boy he shot?
(a) The boy's life is saved by a small metal box containing a protective prayer.
(b) The boy's life is saved by a small packet of letters.
(c) The boy is his nephew.
(d) The boy's life is saved by a small bible.

9. Whom does Yuri discover lying dead in the snow outside Mikulitsyn's house?
(a) Strelnikov.
(b) Komarovsky.
(c) Uncle Nikolai.
(d) Pamphil.

10. Why does Yuri have delirious thoughts and dreams in Chapter 13?
(a) He longs to see Lara.
(b) He is suffering from exhaustion.
(c) He is suffering from a fever.
(d) He ate spoiled food.

11. Whom do Lara and Yuri learn they share as a common nemesis?
(a) Strelnikov.
(b) Komarovsky.
(c) The seamstress.
(d) Pasha.

12. Why does Lara admire Yuri?
(a) Because he is a good provider.
(b) Because he is a romantic poet.
(c) Because he has not let political propaganda infect his soul.
(d) Because he is kinder than Pasha.

13. Who offers to help Yuri and Lara leave Yuriatin?
(a) Strelnikov.
(b) Komarovsky.
(c) Uncle Nikolai.
(d) Pasha.

14. What does Yuri's new friend study during the NEP period?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Music.
(c) Political history.
(d) Book binding and design.

15. What happens to Yuri after the discovery of the mutilated man?
(a) Yuri shows no emotion, but simply walks away and resumes his duties.
(b) Yuri goes insane and murders Pamphil's family with an ax.
(c) Yuri begins to cry and is inconsolable.
(d) Yuri escapes using skis and supplies he had hidden in the forest.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who cares for Yuri while he is ill?

2. What type of tree does Yuri discover growing near the camp on a piece of high ground?

3. In Part 2, Chapter 14, who annoys Yuri and Lara with his return to Yuriatin?

4. In Chapter 13, what new information does Lara give Yuri?

5. Why do Lara and Yuri leave Yuriatin so suddenly?

(see the answer keys)

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