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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is the gift that arrives for the sisters from the answer to #16?
(a) A large silver samovar
(b) A map of Russia
(c) A book of medicines
(d) A large silver statue

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

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

9. What does Andrei really want to do with his life? What is his current goal?
(a) Get married
(b) Translate a book into English
(c) Leave the country
(d) Become a pianist

10. Which of the women in the play describes herself as a little white bird?
(a) Olga
(b) Irina
(c) Natasha
(d) Masha

11. How many people are sitting at the table when the dinner is ready to be served?
(a) 8
(b) 13
(c) 12
(d) 10

12. Who gambles again with Andrei and causes him to lose money in the process?
(a) Vershinin
(b) Olga
(c) Chebutykin
(d) Tusenbach

13. Who has resigned from the military and this is revealed to Masha by that character?
(a) Chebutykin
(b) Tusenbach
(c) Vershinin
(d) Andrei

14. Who is the one sister who wouldn't be able to go back to Moscow?
(a) Olga
(b) Natasha
(c) Masha
(d) Irina

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who makes the comment that all children should be cooked and eaten?

3. Who gives Irina a book detailing the history of the school where her sister teaches?

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

5. Who is the 'lovesick major' the sisters used to tease with that nickname?

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