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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the merchant beg for?
(a) Yaga to let him keep the other of his eyes.
(b) To be allowed to go home.
(c) All of these.
(d) To be spared his life.

2. What did children recognize before adults?
(a) Freedom and liberty.
(b) All of these.
(c) Duty.
(d) Authority.

3. What had Ivan's body been shaped by?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Competition.
(d) Meditation.

4. What does Ruth's mother keep saying about Ivan?
(a) That he doesn't act like a young man in love.
(b) That he isn't right for Ruth.
(c) That he wouldn't make a good husband.
(d) That he shouldn't have left for Russia.

5. What had haunted Ivan about the chasm?
(a) The trees and the circular clearing.
(b) The woman on the pedestal.
(c) None of these.
(d) The thing beneath the leaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ivan remember about bears in fairy tales?

2. What was the bear to Yaga?

3. What was the moral of the story of the Sky, the Rat and the Well?

4. What had Yaga deliberately left out of the salve?

5. What word did Ivan not know in Old Church Slavonic?

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