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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 was the name of the old woman who Ivan's mother used to bring things to?

2. What class did Katerina think Ivan belonged to?

3. What did Ivan remember about bears in fairy tales?

4. What was Ivan's reason for going back to the clearing?

5. What was the message on the piece of paper?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did the Princess think of Ivan?

4. What was Ivan's excuse for not writing home?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

From Sergei's perspective, the reader learns that most of the fairy tales were used to scare children. Discuss why this is no longer practiced as a matter of cause in modern times, and the resources available to disprove such scare tactics, and make the argument for whether or not the world is more or less frightening for children.

Essay Topic 2

Sergei and Ivan have issues attempting to get a hold of parchment paper to record the fairy tales of Taina's time. Explain how the shortage of availability of paper would lead to issues in preservation and historical compilations aside from those of a religious nature.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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