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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the Russian economy collapses, how do the citizens cope with the lack of food and supplies?
(a) Brave soldiers drive supply wagons to Asia.
(b) People barter among themselves.
(c) Groups of people travel to Europe to gather supplies.
(d) American troops drop care packages from airplanes.

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

3. Upon the advice of her lawyer, where does Amalia Karlovna Guishar send Lara?
(a) To England.
(b) To the country.
(c) To school.
(d) To Moscow.

4. What happens to Lara after Yuri leaves and is conscripted?
(a) Her husband forgives her affair and they resume family life.
(b) She has neither husband nor lover, and is left with only her daughter.
(c) She follows Yuri into service as a field nurse.
(d) Her husband takes her daughter away to Moscow.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Yuri's primary concerns during the winter?

2. What type of school is set up in Yuri and Tonia's house?

3. How long did Yuri's affair with Lara last?

4. When Yura and his uncle live in a house owned by the Gromekos, which character also lives in the house?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Yuri and his family get food and supplies for their trip to Varykino?

2. Describe Lara and Pasha's life together.

3. Why does Yuri choose to take his family to Varykino?

4. Why does Lara enter a relationship with a much older man?

5. What happens when Yuri finally visits Lara at her house in Varykino?

6. Describe the careers Yura plans to pursue.

7. Describe what happens to Yura during and after his mother's funeral.

8. How do Yuri and his family survive the harsh winter?

9. What does Tonia think of the information she receives in Yuri's letter from Meliuzeievo?

10. Give an example of the brutality of war that is described in Dr. Zhivago.

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