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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Masha warn Chebutykin not to do as he has embarrassed himself in the past?
(a) Drink
(b) Talk
(c) Joke
(d) Eat

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

3. Where would Andrei like to be a famous lecturer if he were to have his way?
(a) Moscow University
(b) Moscow College
(c) The United States
(d) The Kremlin's Private College

4. Who thinks it's useless to know so many languages?
(a) Irina
(b) Masha
(c) Olga
(d) Chebutykin

5. Masha suggests that which character is not well in the head, which is no surprise to the others or to the reader?
(a) Andrei
(b) Irina
(c) Natasha
(d) Olga

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

7. Who pours the tea when the samovar arrives?
(a) Natasha
(b) Anfisa
(c) Masha
(d) Olga

8. Whose Saint's Day is it when the play begins, causing her to be the central focus of the scene at first?
(a) Irina
(b) Olga
(c) Natasha
(d) Masha

9. Which sister works at the school with the answer to #37?
(a) Masha
(b) Olga
(c) Natasha
(d) Anfisa

10. Who whistles quietly to herself as she reads during the opening part of the play?
(a) Natasha
(b) Irina
(c) Masha
(d) Olga

11. Natasha wonders if the mismatching clothes are some sort of __________.
(a) Blessing
(b) Warning
(c) Joke
(d) Omen

12. Who says again that life will never change when they are discussing the idea of what will be in 200 years?
(a) Vershinin
(b) Tusenbach
(c) Chebutykin
(d) Andrei

13. Who has been named secretary to the council run by Protopopov?
(a) Andrei
(b) Chebutykin
(c) Vershinin
(d) Tusenbach

14. What is the last name of the three sisters who are the title characters of this play?
(a) Protokovo
(b) Prozokoff
(c) Prozoroff
(d) Pranatoff

15. Who, according to Natasha, speaks very bad French?
(a) Olga
(b) Irina
(c) Andrei
(d) Masha

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Vershinin tell the story of the prisoner who did not notice the beauty of bird song until he was incarcerated?

2. Who have the sisters been teasing for being in love with a girl who is engaged?

3. Whose clothes do not match, a fact which is pointed out by another character in the play?

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

5. What does Vershinin learn from the note he receives?

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