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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 was valued in Ivan's time that wasn't in Katerina's?
(a) Integrity.
(b) Bravery.
(c) Modesty.
(d) Loyalty.

2. What was the moral of the story of the Sky, the Rat and the Well?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) That you must always keep a close watch on your children.
(c) Both of these.
(d) That you must always keep your oaths because God is always your witness.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sergei write that made Ivan fearful?

2. What had haunted Ivan about the chasm?

3. What is the only thing holding the Widow back?

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

5. What item assured Ivan that Taina was a doomed town?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what reasons did Ivan resent Princess Katerina?

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

3. Why was it unrealistic that Vanya was imagining Abraham in the forest and countryside? Why didn't this stop him from his fantasy?

4. Why did Vanya finally decide to let the Mohel circumcise him?

5. Why couldn't Yaga simply kill the girl and take over the kingdom?

6. What does rock and roll represent to Vanya's father?

7. What did the Princess think of Ivan?

8. Why can't Katerina name Dimitri as the war leader?

9. How did Ivan's relationship with his mother differ from his relationship with his father?

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

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