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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 drunken character from Lara's past is allowed to sleep in a rat-infested room of her house in Yuriatin?
(a) Pasha.
(b) Komarovsky.
(c) Strelnikov.
(d) Uncle Nikolai.

2. How do some of the villagers reconstruct their roofs?
(a) They cover their roofs with tarps from old army trucks.
(b) They use turf for roofing.
(c) They use shingles from an old government building for roofing.
(d) They use sheets of old metal for roofing.

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

4. Whom do Lara and Yuri learn they share as a common nemesis?
(a) Komarovsky.
(b) Strelnikov.
(c) Pasha.
(d) The seamstress.

5. In Chapter 13, what type of criminal do some people in Yuriatin suspect Yuri of being?
(a) A Tsarist sympathizer
(b) A deserter
(c) A unregistered citizen
(d) A bad doctor

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a serious problem for the leaders of the White Army camp?

2. Why does Lara fear arrest?

3. In Chapter 13, what new information does Lara give Yuri?

4. In Chapter 14, why is Strelnikov in hiding?

5. Where does Komarovsky offer to send Lara and her daughter for safety?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Yuri not accompany Lara to Vladivostok?

2. Describe the rowan tree.

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

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

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

6. Pasternak ties the love story in Dr. Zhivago to a reference to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. How are the two romantic tragedies similar?

7. What could the rowan tree symbolize?

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

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

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

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