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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. Who is Count Benckendorft?

2. What was Daniel accused of?

3. How does Rosa Abramovich die?

4. What is the only escape from serfdom?

5. What does Misha find out about Nicolai and Popov's situation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Nicolai and Grigory?

2. Describe Nicolai's discussion with Popov on the train to Moscow.

3. Describe the conditions in Russia in 1891.

4. What is Mrs. Suvorin's relationship with Popov?

5. How did the revolution of 1905 begin in Russia?

6. What is Karpenko's relationship with Nadezhda?

7. Describe Savva Suvorin's arrival in Moscow.

8. Who is Pavlo, and what is his role in Russka?

9. Describe the relationship between Rosa Abramovich's and Peter Suvorin?

10. What are Nicolai's views on religion?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How would "Russka" be different if it were told more from the perspective of the women in the prominent families? What experiences dose Rutherfurd allude to, but not elaborate on, in the realm of women?

Essay Topic 2

What is the price of historical progress as Russia develops from the 1600s to the 1900s? What is gained? What is given up, or lost? For example, is brutality the price of progress, as under Tsar Peter? Was culture lost as Russia Westernized?

Essay Topic 3

What contemporary cultural problems or cultural questions does "Russka" shed light on? What questions about an ongoing cultural situation does "Russka" help you understand?

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