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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 spell does Baba Yaga do best?

2. How did Bear help Katerina?

3. What was Baba Yaga's war steed?

4. What did Ruth's friends think was the reason that Ivan wouldn't sleep with her?

5. What did Ivan finally say to Yaga when he had the chance?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Ivan and Katerina turn Dimitri to them?

2. Why is Ivan troubled with continuing and finishing the last few touches of his dissertation?

3. Why was Yaga especially upset about regarding Bear?

4. What happened when Ivan attempted to eat the chicken that Ruth brought, and what happened as a result?

5. What was the effect of the weapons of the future against the peasants of the Widow's army?

6. How did Bear figure that things had worked out pretty evenly?

7. What choice does Ivan give his children that he didn't have himself?

8. What happened to Ruth's brownies?

9. How did the fire work in Ivan and Sergei's favor?

10. How does Bear react when he is freed?

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

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 3

Ivan explains to his son how they can't bring certain medicines back from their time to the time of Taina. Discuss not only Ivan's rationale for this, but also other potential ramifications of medicines being created in the early 900's. Explain the kinds of impacts that would have, and the ripple effect of the introduction of modern medicine to an ancient people.

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