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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the spring, Yuri's half brother, Evgraf, brings a sick peasant in for treatment. What is Yuri's diagnosis?
(a) Lupus.
(b) The measles.
(c) Cancer.
(d) A staph infection.

2. How are the big snowdrifts cleared from the path during Yuri's journey to Varykino?
(a) The soldiers clear the snow with shovels borrowed from a nearby village.
(b) The government officials convince men from a nearby village to clear the snow by promising a large reward.
(c) Teams of horses pull snow plows across the path until it is clear.
(d) The passengers split up into work teams, and clear the snow with shovels borrowed from a nearby village.

3. The leaders of the Russian government are called by this name.
(a) Kings.
(b) Tsars.
(c) Marxists.
(d) Communists.

4. What happens to four of the conscripted workers one night as Yuri and his companions enter the mountains on their way to Varykino?
(a) The workers are beaten for complaining about the poor food rations.
(b) The workers begin to show signs of typhoid.
(c) The soldiers shoot the workers for sport.
(d) The workers escape.

5. How does the illness affect Yuri?
(a) His stomach is upset.
(b) His aching joints cripple his movement.
(c) The fever affects his mind.
(d) The rash irritates his skin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Lara love Yuri?

2. What does Dr. Zhivago have published during World War I?

3. Tonia must trade goods for food. Why does the soldier get to eat for free?

4. What physical handicap does political leader Maxim Aristarkhovich Klintsov-Pogorevshikh have?

5. While Lara works as a housewife and teaches at the gymnasium, what does Pasha do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why might people exhibit extreme behavior during a time of war that they would not exhibit in peacetime?

2. With the Russian economy in ruins, how do people survive?

3. Why would Dr. Zhivago work willingly near the front line of battle?

4. How do Yuri and his family survive the harsh winter?

5. Why does Yura faint in the garden?

6. Describe some of the social classes of people who are on the train and how they interact with each other.

7. Describe the careers Yura plans to pursue.

8. Give an example of the brutality of war that is described in Dr. Zhivago.

9. Describe what happens to Yura during and after his mother's funeral.

10. How could Yuri's life have been different if he had not tried to return to Lara the night he was conscripted by the Red Army?

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