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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What alphabet does Brother Sergei utilize?
(a) English.
(b) Cyrillic.
(c) Chinese.
(d) Greek.

2. What happened to Esther that scared her?
(a) She felt as though she had miscarried, and so knew her son was gone.
(b) She hit her head.
(c) She had a nightmare in which an evil woman was killing Ivan.
(d) She had a nightmare in which Ivan disappeared.

3. What did Vanya take solace in?
(a) Running.
(b) Disobeying authority.
(c) Disrespecting his parents.
(d) Rock and roll music.

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

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

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

7. What happened in the clearing?
(a) The leaves churned and revealed a pit.
(b) The clearing shimmered.
(c) A pedestal was revealed.
(d) None of these.

8. What didn't Ivan do that he had been expected to?
(a) Study.
(b) Write home.
(c) Invite Ruth to Russia.
(d) All of these.

9. Who is it that first brings to light Ivan's wearing of Katerina's hoose?
(a) Nadya.
(b) An old crone.
(c) Brother Sergei.
(d) Father Lukas.

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

11. Only a fool would want to live through what?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Both of these.
(c) The marriage to a princess.
(d) The end of a Russian fairy tale.

12. Why couldn't Ivan walk away and leave this task to someone else?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) A man sees through a problem if he can.
(d) He fell in love with the woman on the pedestal.

13. What year does Ivan find out it is?
(a) 890 AD.
(b) 899 AD.
(c) 980 AD.
(d) 900 AD.

14. What does Bear tell Yaga to do?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Kill the girl.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Take the kingdom.

15. What does Ivan ask Brother Sergei to do?
(a) Hide the stories from Father Lukas.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Write down the stories that he has been told so Ivan can preserve them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ivan's father suggest that he return to Russia for?

2. What looked merciful compared to what Baba Yaga inflicted upon those who opposed her?

3. What did Vanya come to love about moving to the country?

4. What had it taken a long time to get out of the house?

5. What did Ivan go looking for in the morning at cousin Marek's?

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