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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what row do Anna and her husband sit at the theater?
(a) First.
(b) Second.
(c) Third.
(d) Back.

2. What does Gurov consider the musicians at the theater to be?
(a) Second-rate.
(b) Awful.
(c) Talented.
(d) Superb.

3. What is the temperature, as Gurov tells his daughter in Chapter 4?
(a) One degree below zero.
(b) Three degrees above zero.
(c) Ten degrees below zero.
(d) Ten degrees above zero.

4. Fill in the blank: "To women he always seemed ______ than what he was."
(a) Different.
(b) Older.
(c) Bigger.
(d) Wiser.

5. Where does Anna go to see Gurov?
(a) Yalta.
(b) Crimea.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Petersburg.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gurov's past lovers do once they realized their mistake?

2. Who says, "You were quite right: the sturgeon was a bit off"?

3. What is the type of realism Chekhov is known for in his writing, and which would refer to The Lady with the Pet Dog?

4. What had none of the women that Gurov had previously been with, been in their time with him?

5. What is Gurov overtaken by a need to share with someone in Chapter 3?

(see the answer keys)

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