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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color horse does Polunochnitsa ride?

2. In Chapter 2, what does Olga see outside the window?

3. What does Daniil have to eat at the beginning of Chapter 2?

4. What comes to a peasant man and woman's house in Chapter 7?

5. In Chapter 2, as the women barricade themselves inside the gates, who speaks of death?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Polunochnitsa say that she helped Vasya, and why will she no longer assist her in Chapter 9?

2. How does the domovaya care for Vasya in Chapter 10?

3. Why does Baba Yaga leave Vasya in Chapter 13?

4. How does Konstantin act when he gets to his cell in Chapter 5?

5. What does Midnight tell the Bear about Vasya?

6. In Chapter 11, why does Ded Grib decide to folllow Vasya?

7. In Chapter 10, where does the domovaya send Vasya, and what warnings does she give?

8. In Chapter 2, when Olga, Vasya, and the others are surrounded, why do they not send for guards?

9. What does Vasya dream after being hit several times in Chapter 3?

10. At the end of Chapter 2, what does Solovey want to do, and why does Vasya do something else?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why would Vasya be considered the protagonist and the Bear the antagonist? Does the Bear’s role change? Why? Would the Bear be considered Vasya’s ally at a point in the novel rather than her antagonist?

Essay Topic 2

A mob comes to kill Vasya. What does Vasya do when the mob comes? What is she feeling as the mob drags her away? How does desperation influence her behavior and her ability to escape?

Essay Topic 3

Why are Father Sergei and Sasha surprised and worried about Vasya’s relationship with Morozko? What does good and evil have to do with their worries about the relationship?

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