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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Vanya like about the way Americans spoke?
(a) The way they pronounced his name.
(b) The way they sung in songs.
(c) The way they spoke about their parents.
(d) The way they talked about the forest.

2. What did Vanya find in the clearing?
(a) All of these.
(b) A coffin.
(c) An endless carpet of pine needles.
(d) A woman lying down.

3. What does Ivan's mother pretend to do?
(a) All of these.
(b) To be uninformed about the world around her.
(c) Not know English when it suits her.
(d) To not notice Ruth's subtle cues.

4. What was Ivan's reason for going back to the clearing?
(a) To meet the princess.
(b) All of these.
(c) To slay the beast guarding the woman.
(d) To mend the tear in his psyche.

5. What did Vanya come to love about moving to the country?
(a) That he could still act like a Russian.
(b) The old forests of Europe that still survived.
(c) The labor and intensity of work.
(d) That no one shunned him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What didn't Ivan do that he had been expected to?

2. What did Vanya take solace in?

3. What do his classmates call Vanya?

4. What had Vanya figured had happened?

5. What had been the burden on Ivan's shoulders?

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