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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Solyony jokes that _______ is made of cockroaches.
(a) The bread
(b) Children
(c) Literature
(d) Liquor

2. Who is responsible for the answer to #24?
(a) Andrei
(b) Chebutykin
(c) The army
(d) The police

3. Who gives Irina a book detailing the history of the school where her sister teaches?
(a) Chebutykin
(b) Masha
(c) Kulygin
(d) Tusenbach

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

5. Who becomes tearful by how old Vershinin looks?
(a) Natasha
(b) Olga
(c) Masha
(d) Irina

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character says that teaching gives her headaches, becoming one of the many complaints this character has?

2. Who is the one sister who wouldn't be able to go back to Moscow?

3. Who died exactly a year ago to the day on this Saint's Day, according to the sisters and their memories?

4. Who whistles quietly to herself as she reads during the opening part of the play?

5. Which of the sisters knows Italian as an additional language to Russian?

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