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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Natasha wearing as she passes through the room?
(a) Dressing gown
(b) Black dress
(c) A wool robe
(d) Nothing

2. Who wonders why falling in love in books seems to be so much better than in real life?
(a) Andrei
(b) Irina
(c) Masha
(d) Olga

3. Who drops the small china clock, shattering it?
(a) Tusenbach
(b) Olga
(c) Chebutykin
(d) Irina

4. Who does Natasha want to move in with Olga, for her own personal reasons?
(a) Chebutykin
(b) Andrei
(c) Masha
(d) Irina

5. Who says he is professing noble emotions even though he feels he is being ignored?
(a) Andrei
(b) Tusenbach
(c) Solyony
(d) Chebutykin

6. Who is pushing the baby carriage in the background?
(a) Andrei
(b) Olga
(c) Masha
(d) Natasha

7. Who tells Natasha about her caller in the carriage?
(a) The maid
(b) Irina
(c) Andrei
(d) Olga

8. How long has Tusenbach loved Irina, according to him?
(a) 5 months
(b) 5 weeks
(c) 5 years
(d) 5 minutes

9. Who quotes confusedly from a poem as she has earlier in the play?
(a) Olga
(b) Natasha
(c) Irina
(d) Masha

10. Who has come to take Natasha for a ride in his carriage?
(a) Protopopov
(b) Vershinin
(c) Tusenbach
(d) Andrei

11. Where does Irina always dream of finding her true love, which is why she wants to return to this place?
(a) Italy
(b) Germany
(c) Moscow
(d) United States

12. Who picks a fight with Tusenbach over the love of Irina?
(a) Solyony
(b) Fedotik
(c) Kulygin
(d) Vershinin

13. To whom does Tusenbach say he has to say goodbye?
(a) Masha
(b) His soliders
(c) Vershinin
(d) Solyony

14. Andrei ask for a key to _________ because saying he has lost his.
(a) The cupboard
(b) The shed
(c) The office
(d) The house

15. Who does Irina think changes Andrei, a supposition that has upset her greatly?
(a) Anfisa
(b) Masha
(c) Natasha
(d) Chebutykin

Short Answer Questions

1. Who talks happily about her life with Olga in the apartment above the schoolhouse?

2. What does Tusenbach ask Irina to have the servants get ready for him?

3. What does Masha nickname her lover although everyone knows who he is?

4. Who tells Tusenback to go out of the house in order to give other characters some privacy?

5. Who is worried that plans have been made to send her away since she seems to be pushed away during the scene?

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