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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 Ivan not speak to his father about?

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

3. When Ivan thought about going home, where did he think about returning to?

4. What did Katerina suspect that Ivan represented?

5. What was the moral of the story of the Sky, the Rat and the Well?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was Yaga supposed to have felt, but didn't?

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

5. For what reasons did Ivan resent Princess Katerina?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Katerina and Ivan's problem regarding the bridges and their mortality is valid. In essay form, discuss the argument they had about the bridges and some problems that their children might have in either world as a result of having been children of both.

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

Compare and contrast the differing opinions of things from Katerina and Ivan's time. Explain how, as a being of both time frames, Marek aka Mozhaiski is a good intermediary to explain how things work.

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