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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 Vanya's family lose?

2. What can't Ivan do while in Taina?

3. Why does Brother Sergei believe that Ivan is already a Christian?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Esther laments on the fall of modern witchcraft and discusses how it has changed. Utilizing unbiased, scholarly sources, provide a detailed account of modern and ancient witchcraft and what it meant to the practitioners and what punishment was meted out and is still in place for practitioners of Paganism.

Essay Topic 3

Ivan realizes that the fairy tales that Sergei had written down were the echos of older religions. In essay form, discuss ancient fairy tales in this light, and attempt to draw some parallels from ancient fairy tales and pagan religions, or conversely, the modern versions of the fairy tales and Christianity.

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