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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time does Yelena tell the Professor it is after he wakes up and she wakes up too?
(a) Almost dawn.
(b) Time to eat.
(c) After midnight.
(d) 3:00 a.m.

2. Who does Astrov invite to drop in on him at his small estate, and this person says that staying in the trees can not be exciting?
(a) Maria.
(b) Yelena.
(c) The Professor.
(d) Sonya.

3. _________ complains about how there is nothing else to talk about, nothing new to talk about.
(a) Sonya.
(b) Telegin.
(c) Vanya.
(d) The Professor.

4. Who tells the others to go to bed because he has come to sit with the Professor for a while?
(a) A worker.
(b) Telegin.
(c) Astrov.
(d) Vanya.

5. Who does Yelena say has real talent and a real vision, and that he must be cared for?
(a) Astrov.
(b) Vanya.
(c) Telegin.
(d) The Professsor.

6. The Professors tells Vanya to go, that they used to be ____________ and will talk another time.
(a) Friends.
(b) Students.
(c) Coworkers.
(d) Idealists.

7. Who becomes angry when Vanya says they have decided to live at the house?
(a) Sonya.
(b) Telegin.
(c) Marina.
(d) The Professor.

8. ________ tells the Professor to stop being so difficult at this point of the play.
(a) Yelena.
(b) Sonya.
(c) Astrov.
(d) Maria.

9. What does Vanya's mother do as everyone else is talking during the scene after she enters?
(a) Begins to settle the accounts.
(b) Cleans up the table.
(c) Sits in a corner and reads.
(d) Starts making dinner.

10. When Yelena talks to Vanya about his quarreling ways, he starts talks about her ___________.
(a) Superficiality.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Feminine wiles.
(d) Laziness.

11. ____________ says that even though his wife ran off and left him, he is still faithful to her and to their children.
(a) The Professor.
(b) Telegin.
(c) Vanya.
(d) Astrov.

12. Yelena promises Sonya she really did marry the Professor for __________, in conflict with Sonya's suspicions.
(a) Partnership.
(b) Companionship.
(c) Love.
(d) Money.

13. Who says that Astrov is perfectly welcome to stay and to wait for the Professor?
(a) Vanya.
(b) Yelena.
(c) Sonya.
(d) Maria.

14. Vanya notes that he used to idolize _________, though he does not anymore.
(a) Karl Marx.
(b) The Professor.
(c) Astrov.
(d) Josef Stalin.

15. When Yelena tells Vanya it's a nice day, what does Vanya say that it is a nice day to do?
(a) Go for a walk.
(b) Shoot someone.
(c) Get a job.
(d) Hang one's self.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Yelena and Sonya share together as a way to celebrate their new friendship?

2. Astrov and Vanya both comment on the beauty of ___________ as well as on the overcoat of the Professor.

3. Who complains they have had just about enough of the Professor?

4. Who does the Professor think actually finds him the most offensive of anyone?

5. Vanya says that he is so __________ with himself for not making more of his life.

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