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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the man in Luka's second story found out that he was lied to, what did he do?
(a) He vowed to be truthful the rest of his life.
(b) He sat and cried.
(c) Struck out at the man who told him the truth.
(d) He moved on with his life.

2. What does Luka believe about kindness?
(a) That it can be taught.
(b) That you are born with it.
(c) That everyone has it always.
(d) That it comes from family.

3. How does the Actor start to speak of finding his hospital cure in the fourth act?
(a) He acts like he has already found it.
(b) He doesn't talk about it.
(c) He speaks of his journey in the third person.
(d) He talks about it nonstop.

4. Who finds Luka's second story amusing?
(a) The Baron.
(b) The Actor.
(c) Bubnoff.
(d) Satine.

5. Where does Pepel say that he is going to run away to?
(a) Ukraine.
(b) Siberia.
(c) Australia.
(d) Africa.

6. What is the setting for the third act?
(a) The kitchen.
(b) The yard in the back of the rooming house.
(c) The hospital.
(d) The mental ward.

7. In the third act, Luka asks the other boarders why they tease who?
(a) Natasha.
(b) Nastya.
(c) Vassilisa.
(d) Anna.

8. Who does Pepel profess his love to in the third act?
(a) Natasha.
(b) The Actor.
(c) Nastya.
(d) Anna.

9. Who encourages the storyteller to continue the love story?
(a) Natasha.
(b) Nastya.
(c) The Actor.
(d) Luka.

10. Who is sitting nearby listening to the sad love story?
(a) Kostilyoff, Vassilisa, and Natasha.
(b) Luka, the Baron, and Kleshtch.
(c) Bubnoff, the Actor, and Satine.
(d) Tartar, Pepel, and Anna.

11. Why does Luka want to move on to a new location?
(a) His family is close to there.
(b) He wants to get away from the people at the boardinghouse.
(c) He likes the weather there better.
(d) People have discovered a new religion that he wants to see.

12. Who do the boarders think has gone mad since Anna's death?
(a) Kostilyoff.
(b) Kleshtch.
(c) Pepel.
(d) Satine.

13. Who ridicules the storyteller?
(a) Satine and the Baron.
(b) Bubnoff and the Actor.
(c) Bubnoff and the Baron.
(d) Satine and the Actor.

14. In Luka's second story, what was the man in search of?
(a) Riches.
(b) Land of righteousness.
(c) His wife.
(d) His child.

15. Who states that a certain fear has always fogged his brain?
(a) The Baron.
(b) The Actor.
(c) Tartar.
(d) Satine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who likens himself to something that grows in fertile ground?

2. What does Tartar say about Luka?

3. Who says, "All men deserve respect, not pity"?

4. Who shouts that his truth is that he hates everyone?

5. What do the boarders call "the waste"?

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