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

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

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

4. How do Gordon and Dudorov feel about collectivism?
(a) They dislike the responsibility it places on them and long for the simpler time when the Tsar ruled.
(b) They feel it is the wrong way to live, but that no one is willing to admit that it is a mistake.
(c) They feel that it only works when people are forced to follow the government's rules.
(d) They feel that it is the best way to live, and that all the pain and suffering of the revolution was worth the outcome.

5. In Chapter 15, Yuri returns to Moscow. How does he find food and supplies on his journey?
(a) He gathers field gleanings and scrounges whatever he can from abandoned houses.
(b) He steals food from an unsuspecting peasant.
(c) He trades his coat to a farmer for produce.
(d) He works odd jobs in towns along the way, accepting food as payment.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 13, what type of criminal do some people in Yuriatin suspect Yuri of being?

2. Whose home does Yuri return to after escaping from his conscription?

3. 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?

4. By what name is Yuri's division known?

5. Which drunken character from Lara's past is allowed to sleep in a rat-infested room of her house in Yuriatin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Yuri not accompany Lara to Vladivostok?

2. Describe the rowan tree.

3. Why do Yuri's writings both inspire and threaten the characters in the book?

4. Why do you think Yuri stays in Yuriatin for a time instead of leaving immediately to find his wife and family?

5. What do Yuri and Lara do when they hear a rumor that the Executive Committee plans to arrest them?

6. Describe what Yuri finds in Lara's house when he returns to Yuriatin.

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

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

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

10. Lara and Yuri discover they share a common nemesis. Who is this person and what has he/she done to them?

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