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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who promises to go to university with Andrei even thought it seems this might be an empty promise?
(a) Tusenbach
(b) Bobik
(c) Irina
(d) Vershinin

3. Who says that while he has a German name, he is truly Russian at heart?
(a) Andrei
(b) Ferapont
(c) Solyony
(d) Tusenbach

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

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

6. Who suggests they imagine what like will be like in 200 years?
(a) Vershinin
(b) Natasha
(c) Olga
(d) Andrei

7. Who is upset because one of his daughters is unwell and his wife is in a very bad mood?
(a) Andrei
(b) Tusenbach
(c) Chebutykin
(d) Vershinin

8. Who was born and raised in an aristocratic family?
(a) Andrei
(b) Tusenbach
(c) Chebutykin
(d) Olga

9. What is going on during this particular time period of the scene?
(a) Carnival Week
(b) Saints Week
(c) Christmas
(d) Easter

10. To whom does Andrei propose marriage in the end of the scene, almost spontaneously?
(a) Natasha
(b) Olga
(c) Anfisa
(d) Irina

11. Whose clothes do not match, a fact which is pointed out by another character in the play?
(a) Natasha's
(b) Olga's
(c) Andrei's
(d) Irina's

12. Who has come to the sisters' house with a message from the council?
(a) Andrei
(b) Vershinin
(c) Chebutykin
(d) Ferapont

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

14. Who died exactly a year ago to the day on this Saint's Day, according to the sisters and their memories?
(a) The sisters' father
(b) Andrei's brother
(c) The sisters' mother
(d) The sister's grandfather

15. When Irina turns down the book, to whom is the book next given?
(a) Chebutykin
(b) Vershinin
(c) Olga
(d) Masha

Short Answer Questions

1. Who brings Vershinin a note during the course of the scene, alerting him to news from home?

2. Kulygin is glad that _________ loves him and he continues to say this throughout the play.

3. Who carries a large cake as he comes in to visit with the sisters in their home?

4. Who seems to have a hearing problem as evidenced by the need for other characters to repeat themselves?

5. Who is NOT one of the three sisters who are the title characters of this play?

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