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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. What does Yuri send to Marina?
(a) A coat.
(b) A love letter.
(c) New shoes.
(d) Money.

2. Which rule does Yuri break while serving as a conscripted field doctor?
(a) He gives away medical supplies to poor peasants.
(b) He gives away food rations to poor peasants.
(c) He sneaks a letter out to Lara.
(d) He uses a rifle.

3. Whose home does Yuri return to after escaping from his conscription?
(a) Lara's house.
(b) His own house.
(c) Evgraf's house.
(d) Uncle Nikolai's house.

4. What happens to Pamphil after the discovery of the mutilated man?
(a) Pamphil begins to cry and is inconsolable.
(b) Pamphil goes insane and murders his family with an ax.
(c) Pamphil becomes angry and vows revenge.
(d) Pamphil shows no emotion, but simply walks away and resumes his duties.

5. What happens to Yuri on the trolley?
(a) He is arrested.
(b) He has a heart attack and dies.
(c) He is mugged by another passenger.
(d) He meets Lara, and they leave town together.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 2, Chapter 13, by the time Yuri returns to Yuriatin, which political party has gained control of the government?

2. Tonia tells Gordon and Dudorov a story about having to leave Mongolia with her mother. Why did she and her mother have to leave so suddenly?

3. What does Yuri need from the government in order to journey to France?

4. The washing woman has a special friend who died during the war. What was her friend's name?

5. In Chapter 16, after World War II, under whose protection does Tonia live?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are Gordon and Dudorov interested in Yuri's book of poetry?

2. Describe Yuri's behavior after Lara leaves for Vladivostok.

3. Describe how Yuri manages to escape from the Red Army camp.

4. Describe what happens when Yuri breaks Red Cross rules and uses a rifle.

5. Describe Yuri's death and funeral.

6. Describe the rowan tree.

7. What could the rowan tree symbolize?

8. In the Epilogue of Dr. Zhivago, Gordon and Dudorov discuss a woman named Christina. What has Christina done?

9. Why does Yuri choose to compare the drops of blood in the snow with rowan berries?

10. In Chapter 13, while in Yuritan, what does Lara want to have happen to her relationship with Yuri?

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