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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. Who overhears Bazarov lecturing Arkady on old ways of thinking?
(a) Fenitchka
(b) Nikolai
(c) Alexander
(d) Pavel

2. Where does Victor invite the two young men?
(a) A cafe
(b) A car show
(c) A bordello
(d) His friends house

3. When does Bazarov tell Anna he will be leaving?
(a) Next week
(b) In two hours
(c) In a month's time
(d) Tomorrow morning

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

5. What four things does Pavel say that Bazarov derides?
(a) Family, working class, principles and progress
(b) Aristocracy, progress, principles and liberalism
(c) Communism, progress, human nature and women
(d) Liberalism, love, famiy and aristocracy

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Bazarov make fun of after dinner?

2. What woman do the two young men meet at the ball?

3. How does Bazarov respond to Anna'a flirtations?

4. Where does Anna ask Bazarov to accompany her the next morning?

5. Who is the farm named after?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think Turgenev sometimes addresses the reader directly?

2. Why does Bazarov decide to go home?

3. Why is Nikolai so upset at the beginning of chapter 11?

4. What does Bazarov want to happen to Russia?

5. Why does Anna withdraw her affections for Barradov?

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

7. What was happening in Russia at the time to bring about hardships to land owners like Nikolai

8. How does Turgenev end his novel?

9. How do Anna and Katya react to Arkady and Bazarov's presence?

10. What is Pavel's argument in support of aristocracy?

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