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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did children recognize before adults?

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

3. What does Katerina ask of her father?

4. How old was Yaga when she was married and raped?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Ivan need to do in order to go home?

3. Why is Nadya hesitant to show the Princess' hoose to her son and Father Lukas?

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

5. What was Katerina's justification for their treatment and purchase of slaves?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Katerina and Ivan give their children all the choice in the world about what they want to do and who they want to be. Discuss how this might be a problem, with children having different lives in different worlds, and whether or not it makes them unsuited for either.

Essay Topic 2

Although Bear initially went to kill Ivan, he seems to have had a change of heart once Ivan frees him. Discuss this change of heart, and Bear's actions afterwards, and what this suggests about not only his desire to kill Ivan, but also about his relationship with Yaga.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the influences at work that finally allowed Katerina and Ivan to resolve their differences and realize that they loved each other. Explain what kinds of things stood in their way and what comments, situations and influences encouraged their love to grow.

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