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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. Where do Lara and Pasha live in the beginning of their marriage?
(a) Petrograd.
(b) Yuriatin.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Leningrad.

2. Why does Dr. Zhivago leave the front line and return to the hospital?
(a) He cannot stand the gruesome nature of war.
(b) He returns to treat the wounded Lara.
(c) He is wounded by a shell explosion.
(d) The hospital offers him a promotion.

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

4. What does Commissar Strelnikov believe everyone must do during the Russian Civil War?
(a) Everyone should be prepared for the hardships of war.
(b) People should help each other.
(c) People should use their rations wisely.
(d) Everyone must choose a side.

5. What happens to four of the conscripted workers one night as Yuri and his companions enter the mountains on their way to Varykino?
(a) The soldiers shoot the workers for sport.
(b) The workers begin to show signs of typhoid.
(c) The workers are beaten for complaining about the poor food rations.
(d) The workers escape.

Short Answer Questions

1. While in Varykino, what does Yuri suspect about Tonia?

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

3. What does Yuri tell Commissar Strelnikov he wants out of life?

4. What is the name of the man who now runs the estate once owned by Yuri's father?

5. Why does Lara consider herself to be a bad person?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the careers Yura plans to pursue.

4. How does Lara feel about Komarovsky later in their relationship?

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

6. Describe the political views of Maxim Aristarkhovich Klintsov-Pogorevshikh.

7. Why does Yura faint in the garden?

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 Yuri's arrest.

10. How could Yuri's life have been different if he had not tried to return to Lara the night he was conscripted by the Red Army?

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