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

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

3. What did the woman say to Ivan?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Ask me to marry you.
(c) Marry me.
(d) Neither of these.

4. What had it taken a long time to get out of the house?
(a) The stink of bear.
(b) Both of these.
(c) The stink of rotten meat.
(d) Neither of these.

5. What did Ivan say in Old Church Slavonic?
(a) "Honey could not be as sweet as your smile, nor wine as intoxicating as your laugh".
(b) "Your lips are the red of a thousand apples, and your eyes the green of none".
(c) "You are beautiful and wise and I intend to marry you."
(d) None of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was valued in Ivan's time that wasn't in Katerina's?

2. What do his classmates call Vanya?

3. What did Ivan not speak to his father about?

4. What constellation did Katerina refer to?

5. What language does Ivan switch to?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ivan justify his wearing the princess' hoose?

2. How did Katerina react when Ivan said the witch's name?

3. How did Ivan solve the problem of the bear?

4. What issue did Ivan have once he had hit the bear?

5. What did Vanya's parents fear? What did they decide to do about it?

6. What had Yaga done to convey her message to her late husband?

7. What bothered Ivan about his relationship with his father and why?

8. What problems occurred in Taina when Baba Yaga appeared?

9. What did the Princess think of Ivan?

10. What problem does Ivan come across when he tries to justify his impending marriage to Ruth to Katerina?

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