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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it that matters about the love story?
(a) How it begins.
(b) The meaning behind the words.
(c) How it ends.
(d) The location.

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

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

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

5. Who has vanished in the fourth act?
(a) Natasha.
(b) Satine.
(c) Vassilisa.
(d) Luka.

6. What is the significance of the way that the Actor speaks of finding his hospital cure?
(a) He thinks that he is already cured.
(b) He is determined to find it no matter what.
(c) He is distancing himself from it.
(d) He has given up.

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

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

9. Who acts as Luka did and suggest that they all stop interfering with each other?
(a) The Baron.
(b) The Actor.
(c) Kostilyoff.
(d) Satine.

10. What does Kleshtch say about Luka?
(a) Calls him merciful.
(b) Calls him annoying.
(c) Calls him good.
(d) Calls him old.

11. Who listens to the love story through a boardinghouse window?
(a) Bubnoff.
(b) Satine.
(c) The Actor.
(d) Kostilyoff.

12. Who is sitting at the table drinking in the fourth act?
(a) Anna, Natasha, and Zob.
(b) Satine, the Baron, and Nastya.
(c) Satine, Anna, and Bubnoff.
(d) Bubnoff, Tartar, and Kostilyoff.

13. Who vows melodramatically to leave in the fourth act?
(a) Satine.
(b) Natasha.
(c) Nastya.
(d) The Actor.

14. Who gives the longest speech in the whole play?
(a) Bubnoff.
(b) Satine.
(c) The Actor.
(d) The Baron.

15. What is the first thing mentioned missing from the set in the fourth act?
(a) Partition.
(b) Beds.
(c) Bench.
(d) Table.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the implied goal for which to strive, according to the fourth act?

2. Who mocks Satine for telling all of his stories?

3. Why does Pepel think that Kleshtch is upset?

4. Who says that they believe the storyteller's love story?

5. What mistake did the storyteller have while telling the story in the third act?

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