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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 7 Train to the Urals.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Yura poor?
(a) Yura's father was on strike.
(b) Yura's father could not find work.
(c) Yura's father had squandered the family fortune.
(d) The government had taken all their posessions.

2. Why did the soldiers of the Provisional Government bayonet a young idealist after he had already been killed by a rifle shot?
(a) He moved his arm.
(b) They wanted to make sure he was really dead.
(c) They were angry.
(d) He spoke to them.

3. What physical handicap does political leader Maxim Aristarkhovich Klintsov-Pogorevshikh have?
(a) He is a deaf-mute.
(b) He is mentally challenged.
(c) He is blind.
(d) He was crippled in the war.

4. How does Lara plan to end her affair with Komarovsky?
(a) She plans to tell him over dinner.
(b) She plans to shoot him.
(c) She plans to tell him in a letter.
(d) She plans to run away.

5. While traveling to Varykino, who travels with Yuri and his family?
(a) Uncle Nikolai.
(b) A platoon of soldiers.
(c) A mixture of professionals, conscripted workers, and peasants.
(d) A group of government officials.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lara and Pasha have a daughter. What is the child's name?

2. What does Commissar Strelnikov believe everyone must do during the Russian Civil War?

3. How many days did it take to clear the snowdrifts from the path?

4. Whom does Yuri tell his wife he is working with in Meliuzeievo?

5. While on his journey to Varykino, what happens to Yuri as he walks near a river?

(see the answer key)

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