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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who seems to have a hearing problem as evidenced by the need for other characters to repeat themselves?
(a) Masha
(b) Ferapont
(c) Andrei
(d) Olga

2. Who tells the other characters that the maskers will be there soon?
(a) Irina
(b) Natasha
(c) Andrei
(d) Olga

3. Who brings Vershinin a note during the course of the scene, alerting him to news from home?
(a) Masha
(b) Olga
(c) Irina
(d) Anfisa

4. Which one of these characters is the Chairman of the District Council?
(a) Chebutykin
(b) Tusenbach
(c) Protopopov
(d) Andrei

5. Who mentions his wife and daughters at the end of the scene?
(a) Tusenbach
(b) Vershinin
(c) Andrei
(d) Chebutykin

6. Who chatters about the Sunday day of rest, talking endlessly about what it should include?
(a) Vershinin
(b) Kulygin
(c) Natasha
(d) Andrei

7. How long ago did the family leave Moscow to come to the provincial area where they are now settled?
(a) 7 years
(b) 5 years
(c) 2 years
(d) 11 years

8. What is said to be far away, though no one knows why?
(a) The post office
(b) The train station
(c) The market
(d) The church

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

10. Who announces Vershinin's arrival into this second part of Act 1?
(a) Anfisa
(b) Natasha
(c) Irina
(d) Olga

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

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

13. What is heard as the characters are speaking during this second part of the Act 1?
(a) A siren
(b) A violin
(c) An air raid horn
(d) A knock at the door

14. What does Vershinin learn from the note he receives?
(a) His wife tried to commit suicide
(b) His wife has left him
(c) His house burned down
(d) His daughter has run away

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the gift that arrives for the sisters from the answer to #16?

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

3. Who suggests they imagine what like will be like in 200 years?

4. Which character says he loved the sisters' mother?

5. Who does Tusenbach try to make peace with although it doesn't seem to be successful?

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