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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 the bear to Yaga?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her concubine.
(d) Her brother.

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

3. What was in Katerina's gesture when she touched him?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Fear.
(d) Annoyance.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What class did Katerina think Ivan belonged to?

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

4. What did Sergei write that made Ivan fearful?

5. What did Ivan compare himself to while talking to Katerina?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Ivan realize is the death knell for Taina?

3. What did Baba Yaga wish to gain from Bear?

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

5. What happened to Esther when Ivan rescued the princess Katerina?

6. In what ways was the young man that had rescued the princess not what Yaga had suspected?

7. How did Ivan justify what he had seen and heard in the forest as a child?

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

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

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

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