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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 illness does Yuri see developing frequently as a result of the constant warfare?
(a) Measles.
(b) Typhoid.
(c) Mental illness.
(d) Smallpox.

2. What suspicion do Lara and Yuri have about Mikulitsyn's house?
(a) The house was once headquarters for the White Army.
(b) The house was once headquarters for the Red Army.
(c) The house is infested with fleas.
(d) Someone else has been living there.

3. What happens to Yuri after the discovery of the mutilated man?
(a) Yuri begins to cry and is inconsolable.
(b) Yuri goes insane and murders Pamphil's family with an ax.
(c) Yuri shows no emotion, but simply walks away and resumes his duties.
(d) Yuri escapes using skis and supplies he had hidden in the forest.

4. While living across the street from the house of sculptures in Chapter 13, why do Lara and Yuri feel they must leave Yuriatin soon?
(a) They feel the seamstress is plotting revenge.
(b) There is not enough food or work for them in Yuriatin.
(c) Eventually the authorities will consider them enemies of the state.
(d) Yuri refuses to register with the government.

5. What does Yuri need from the government in order to journey to France?
(a) Money.
(b) A passport.
(c) An international medical license.
(d) A train ticket.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Yuri discover lying dead in the snow outside Mikulitsyn's house?

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

3. How do Gordon and Dudorov feel about collectivism?

4. While Yuri is serving as a conscripted as a field doctor, how many times does he attempt escape?

5. When Yuri returns to Yuriatin in chapter 13, where does he believe his wife and son have gone?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe Yuri's death and funeral.

6. Describe how the war affects Pamphil.

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

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

9. Why does Lara return for Yuri's funeral after he refused to follow her to Vladivostok?

10. What could the rowan tree symbolize?

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