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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which character represents the rising middle class of turn-of-century Russia?
(a) Pishchik.
(b) Lopakhin.
(c) Gaev.
(d) Lubyov.

2. What do Charlotta's parents do for a living?
(a) They were serfs.
(b) Traveled and performed shows at fairs.
(c) They were merchants.
(d) Taught at a small school house.

3. What is the setting for Act II?
(a) The ballroom.
(b) Lyubov's bedroom.
(c) A meadow on the estate.
(d) The nursery.

4. What did Lopakhin's father do to him when Lopakhin was a child?
(a) He gave him up for adoption.
(b) He beat Lopakhin.
(c) He fed him candies.
(d) He taught Lopakhin to become a banker.

5. Which character says, "We should stop admiring ourselves. We should just work, and that is all"?
(a) Charlotta.
(b) Lopakhin.
(c) Trofimov.
(d) Pishchik.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who buys the cherry orchard at the auction?

2. Who says, "My father was a peasant, an idiot?"

3. What did Firs say that the late master treated everyone with for illness?

4. Which character quotes Nietzche in Act III?

5. Whom does Varya chase from the estate in Act III?

(see the answer key)

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