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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. Where is Ivan taken?

2. What is the result when Monomakh refuses the throne?

3. Who do the Cossacks meet with during Bright Week?

4. Who does Yanka have a relationship with?

5. Whose military does Andrei Karpenko join after Stanislaus' visit?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who has the most power in this earliest chapter?

2. Describe the revolution that kills Sviatopolk.

3. Describe Andrei Karpenko's relationship with Maryushka.

4. Why does Bobrov have a grudge against Stephen the monk?

5. What is the nature of the political system in 1067?

6. Describe Yanka's pregnancy and marriage.

7. What problem is Boris Bobrov having with his estate and how does he solve it?

8. Describe Ivan's story.

9. What kind of political alliance does Milei suggest, and why does this injure Yanka?

10. What happens when Bobrov's wife gets pregnant in his absence?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Rutherfurd maintain the reader's interest for nearly 1,000 pages? What plot strategies, what suspense, or what kinds of stories does Rutherfurd include, to keep his readers zooming along? Where is he most successful? Where does the narrative slow down?

Essay Topic 2

Why did Russia respond to the industrial revolution differently than the European countries? What Russian social structures and customs influenced its reaction to the industrial revolution?

Essay Topic 3

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

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