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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Medviedenko's job?

2. Who knocks on the window of Treplieff's room?

3. What does Mediedenko say costs seventy kopecks?

4. Who does Arkadina tell Sorin to keep an eye on?

5. What Paulina say is the only thing a woman asks for?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Look at the generation gap between younger and the older characters. What different experiences did both generations go through? What problems is the generation gap causing the characters? Is generational gap expressed in Seagull particularly wide during this time or is a wide generational gap common to all ages?

Essay Topic 2

THE SEA GULL greatly influenced modern literature. Choose a book that you think was influenced by the play and discuss its similarities swath the novel in terms of the following:

Plot

Character

Themes.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the values of the 1900s.

In what ways are the characters a product of their time?

How does the play express the changes Russian was going through at the time?

Does modern society share any values with 1900s Russia?

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