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

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

3. Yuri receives a letter from Tonia. Where does he learn she has gone?
(a) She has moved to Leningrad.
(b) She has been deported to France.
(c) She has been living in Moscow.
(d) She has been deported to Italy.

4. What animals found lurking on the property in Varykino represent the pressures of the world lurking nearby?
(a) The owls.
(b) The bears.
(c) The wolves.
(d) The ravens.

5. What does the blood on the snow outside of Mikulitsyn's house remind Yuri of?
(a) Rowan berries.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Tears.
(d) Rain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Major-General Zhivago, Yuri's half brother Evgraf, is looking for something. What is it?

2. Why is a group of soldiers executed near Yuri's tree?

3. What type of tree does Yuri discover growing near the camp on a piece of high ground?

4. How does Yuri make money during the NEP period?

5. Why does Yuri agree to follow Lara in Komarovsky's sleigh?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Yuri react to Strelnikov's return?

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

3. How does Yuri avoid the temptation of considering Lara and her daughter his new family?

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

5. Describe the rowan tree.

6. Describe what happens when Komarovsky shows up at Yuri and Lara's house in Yuriatin.

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

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

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

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

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