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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Natalya's relatives call her?

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

3. What friend has been writing to Vera, hoping that she'll write back?

4. In Act 3, Part 1, Natalya confesses that she is infatuated with which character?

5. Whom does Rakitin call a "stupid, fat, lumbering man"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Shpigelski's song at the end of Act 4, Part 1 relate to Natalya's problem with Beliayev and Vera?

2. Describe Beliayev, according to Natalya's report in Act 1, Part 1.

3. Why does Natalya insist in Act 3, Part 2, that Vera imagine her as a sister?

4. Why does Shpigelski say that he and Bolshintsov were searching for mushrooms?

5. What is the advice Shpigelski gives Bolshintsov regarding wooing women?

6. Why does Katya insist that Beliayev take all her raspberries?

7. Why does Shpigelski state that he believes Natalya's level of bile is bothering her?

8. Why did Islayev never previously intervene in the relationship between Natalya and Rakitin?

9. Why does Vera decide to marry Bolshintsov?

10. What is the question that Natalya asks Rakitin in Act 1, Part 1, and why does he spend so much time thinking about it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the significance of Katya and Anna in propelling the plot forward.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the theme of jealousy in the play.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Natalya's tendency to manipulate others, and then compare it with what happens when Vera manipulates her.

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