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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Irina and Olga want to be by the fall in terms of their living situation?
(a) Poland
(b) New York
(c) Chicago
(d) Moscow

2. Who is gaining weight according to the observations of the other characters in the play?
(a) Masha
(b) Andrei
(c) Olga
(d) Irina

3. Who makes a bad joke that is followed by an awkward silence?
(a) Olga
(b) Masha
(c) Solyony
(d) Andrei

4. Which character says he loved the sisters' mother?
(a) Vershinin
(b) Tusenbach
(c) Chebutykin
(d) Ferapont

5. Which character says that teaching gives her headaches, becoming one of the many complaints this character has?
(a) Masha
(b) Natasha
(c) Irina
(d) Olga

Short Answer Questions

1. How long ago did the family leave Moscow to come to the provincial area where they are now settled?

2. What is heard as the characters are speaking during this second part of the Act 1?

3. Who do they say is going to be a professor one day because he is so smart?

4. Whose Saint's Day is it when the play begins, causing her to be the central focus of the scene at first?

5. Who mentions his wife and daughters at the end of the scene?

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