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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. What does Yuri's wife, Tonia, receive for trading an embroidered towel?
(a) Half of a roasted turkey.
(b) Half of a roasted rabbit.
(c) Half of a loaf of bread.
(d) Half of a roasted chicken.

2. What mode of transportation does Yuri and his family use as they leave for the town of Varykino in the early spring?
(a) A stolen Army truck.
(b) Their own feet.
(c) A horse and cart.
(d) The train.

3. In the first chapter, many workers protest working conditions by leaving their jobs. What word is used in the book to describe that type of protest?
(a) Hit.
(b) Recession.
(c) Demonstration.
(d) Strike.

4. What type of school is set up in Yuri and Tonia's house?
(a) An officer training school.
(b) A medical school.
(c) An elementary school.
(d) An agricultural school.

5. Whom does Yuri tell his wife he is working with in Meliuzeievo?
(a) Blazheiko.
(b) Nikolai.
(c) Lara.
(d) Maxim.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Lara and Pasha live in the beginning of their marriage?

2. Why does Lara leave the front line and return to Moscow?

3. Why does Yuri go to the town of Yuriatin?

4. How do Yuri and his family finance their trip to Varykino?

5. When the Russian economy collapses, which two political groups begin to fight for power?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Everyone must trade or pay for the food that is sold illegally behind the train stations. Why doesn't the soldier have to pay for the food he eats?

5. Describe the careers Yura plans to pursue.

6. What happens when Yuri finally visits Lara at her house in Varykino?

7. Describe Yuri's arrest.

8. Describe the political views of Maxim Aristarkhovich Klintsov-Pogorevshikh.

9. Describe the type of work Yuri and his family do to survive when they first arrive in Varykino.

10. How does Yuri react when he sees Lara at the library?

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