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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Nikolai's servants call the farm?
(a) Poverty Farm
(b) Home Sweet Home
(c) Lucky Farm
(d) The Kingdom of Bore

2. What is Bazarov's opinion on the aristocracy?
(a) They are out of date
(b) They are unnecessary
(c) They are communists
(d) They are cultured

3. What does Pavel say he can endure no longer?
(a) Bazarov
(b) The ridicule of his beliefs
(c) The farm
(d) Arkady

4. What does Nikolai wonder how Arkady and Bazorov could reject?
(a) Family
(b) Pavel
(c) The aristocracy
(d) The countryside

5. What does Pavel challenge Bazarov on?
(a) His opinion on medicine
(b) His opinion on politics
(c) His opinion on human nature
(d) His opinion of aristocrats

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Arkady's cousin?

2. What is the name of Nikolai's brother?

3. How far from the postal station is Nikolai's home?

4. Where does Victor invite the two young men?

5. What is the name of Nikolai's son?

Short Essay Questions

1. What prompts Arkady to declare his love for Katya?

2. Describe Nikolai's life up until the story's present.

3. In what way does Nikolai prove he is not a farmer at heart?

4. In what way have times been hard for Nikolai in recent times?

5. Why does Anna withdraw her affections for Barradov?

6. What suggestion is there in chapter 20 that Bazarov and Arkady maybe changing their perspective on life?

7. In what way does Bazarov upset Pavel?

8. In what way were Pavel and Nikolai different as children?

9. Why does Pavel challenge Bazarov to a duel?

10. How does Bazarov's situation change at the end of this section?

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