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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. Why does Lara leave the front line and return to Moscow?
(a) Lara learns that her mother is dying.
(b) Pasha's tour of duty is over.
(c) She is offered a job at the hospital in Moscow.
(d) She thinks that Pasha is dead.

2. What does Lara do when Pasha joins the Russian army?
(a) She works in her mother's bakery.
(b) She becomes a nurse.
(c) She becomes a teacher.
(d) She becomes a secretary.

3. During World War I, Dr. Zhivago, serves in a hospital in which city?
(a) Leningrad.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Petrograd.
(d) Yuriatin.

4. What physical handicap does political leader Maxim Aristarkhovich Klintsov-Pogorevshikh have?
(a) He is a deaf-mute.
(b) He is mentally challenged.
(c) He was crippled in the war.
(d) He is blind.

5. Where do Yura and his uncle Nikolai live first?
(a) A monastery.
(b) England.
(c) His uncle's estate.
(d) A hotel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Yuri love Lara?

2. Why does Lara love Yuri?

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

4. Where does fighting begin in the 1917 Russian revolution?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe some of the political views and opinions of the characters in the first chapter.

2. Describe some of the social classes of people who are on the train and how they interact with each other.

3. Describe the events that lead to Yuri's conscription by the Red Army.

4. Why would Dr. Zhivago work willingly near the front line of battle?

5. How does Yuri react when he sees Lara at the library?

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

7. Describe how the snow is cleared from the train tracks.

8. Everyone must trade or pay for the food that is sold illegally behind the train stations. Why doesn't the soldier have to pay for the food he eats?

9. Describe Dr. Zhivago's actions during the war.

10. Describe the beginning Lara and Pasha's relationship.

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