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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Beliayev's favorite part of a newspaper?
(a) The photos.
(b) The opinion pages.
(c) The comic strips.
(d) The articles.

2. Who enters at the end of Act 1, Part 1?
(a) Kolya.
(b) Islayev.
(c) Shpigelski.
(d) Rakitin.

3. Who is searching for a tutor in Moscow for Kolya?
(a) The czar.
(b) Liza.
(c) The princess.
(d) Schaaf.

4. Who made Kolya a bow and arrows?
(a) Islayev.
(b) Rakitin.
(c) Beliayev.
(d) Matvey.

5. Whom does Natalya accuse of being "mysterious"?
(a) Beliayev.
(b) Shpigelski.
(c) Islayev.
(d) Rakitin.

6. What type of weather does Rakitin mention in Act 1, Part 2?
(a) A thunderstorm.
(b) Wind.
(c) Rain.
(d) A hurricane.

7. About whom does Shpigelski tell a story in Act 1, Part 2?
(a) Karamazov.
(b) Verenitsin.
(c) Krinitsin.
(d) Gorbachev.

8. Rakitin states that he is "like wax in your hands" to whom?
(a) Natalya.
(b) Katya.
(c) Beliayev.
(d) Islayev.

9. What toy does Kolya have in Act 2, Part 3?
(a) A kite.
(b) A slingshot.
(c) A train.
(d) Jacks.

10. Whom does Rakitin call "our unspoiled youth" in his soliloquy in Act 2, Part 2?
(a) Kolya.
(b) Beliayev.
(c) Matvey.
(d) Vera.

11. What friend has been writing to Vera, hoping that she'll write back?
(a) Katya.
(b) Liza Moshnin.
(c) Anya Verenitsin.
(d) Zlata.

12. Who wins most of the hands of the game in Act 1, Part 1?
(a) Rakitin.
(b) Arkady.
(c) Schaaf.
(d) Natalya.

13. What is Schaaf carrying in Act 2, Part 1?
(a) A crossbow.
(b) A cello.
(c) A fishing rod.
(d) A Greek lexicon.

14. Whom does Natalya call "a great cynic"?
(a) Anna.
(b) Vera.
(c) Shpigelski.
(d) Rakitin.

15. Where did Beliayev live before coming to Natalya's house?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Paris.
(c) Kiev.
(d) St. Petersburg.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Rakitin, which character is "simply an idiot"?

2. As Natalya states in Act 2, Part 2, "there's nothing more depressing than gloomy" what?

3. According to Shpigelski, which character is "straight from the Golden Age of Innocence"?

4. In Act 1, Part 1, Rakitin states that Natalya is like what kind of animal?

5. For what does Kolya request some glue?

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