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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who protects Nastya from being struck?
(a) The Baron.
(b) Satine.
(c) Kostilyoff.
(d) The Actor.

2. What does the new setting look like in the third act?
(a) Garbage and weeds.
(b) Just white walls.
(c) Doctors and nurses.
(d) Appliances and table and chairs.

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

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

5. Who lies up on top of the stove coughing in the fourth act?
(a) Satine.
(b) Pepel.
(c) The Baron.
(d) The Actor.

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

7. Who spent time praying at his bunk?
(a) Kostilyoff.
(b) The Actor.
(c) The Baron.
(d) Tartar.

8. Where does Luka announce in act three that he plans on leaving to go to?
(a) Africa.
(b) Siberia.
(c) Ukraine.
(d) Australia.

9. Who makes nasty comments from the window once Pepel professes his love?
(a) Anna.
(b) Vassilisa.
(c) Nastya.
(d) Natasha.

10. Who likens himself to something that grows in fertile ground?
(a) The Actor.
(b) Luka.
(c) Kostilyoff.
(d) Satine.

11. What does Kleshtch relate goodness to?
(a) The Gospels.
(b) Koran.
(c) The Criminal Code.
(d) A report card.

12. How did Luka's second story end?
(a) The man was cured from being sick.
(b) The man got married.
(c) The man hung himself.
(d) The man became rich.

13. Who tells a sad love story?
(a) Nastya.
(b) Satine.
(c) Luka.
(d) Natasha.

14. What mistake did the storyteller have while telling the story in the third act?
(a) How they met changed.
(b) The ending changed.
(c) The lover's name changed.
(d) The location changed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Pepel profess his love to in the third act?

2. Who encourages the storyteller to continue the love story?

3. How does the Actor start to speak of finding his hospital cure in the fourth act?

4. Who says, "He persuaded them to go away but failed to show them the road"?

5. Who admits to the others that she lies to herself and invents a life of happily ever after for herself?

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