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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. Why does Yuri have delirious thoughts and dreams in Chapter 13?
(a) He is suffering from exhaustion.
(b) He is suffering from a fever.
(c) He longs to see Lara.
(d) He ate spoiled food.

2. What does Yuri do while alone in Mikulitsyn's house?
(a) He rises early and tends the garden.
(b) He sleeps late and writes about politics.
(c) He repairs holes the rats have made.
(d) He drinks vodka and writes about Lara.

3. How do some of the villagers reconstruct their roofs?
(a) They use sheets of old metal for roofing.
(b) They use shingles from an old government building for roofing.
(c) They cover their roofs with tarps from old army trucks.
(d) They use turf for roofing.

4. What is a serious problem for the leaders of the White Army camp?
(a) Head Lice.
(b) Alcoholism.
(c) Typhoid.
(d) Desertion.

5. Why does Yuri want to borrow scissors from a nearby seamstress?
(a) To trim his hair and beard.
(b) To make a shirt out of the curtains in his room.
(c) To repair his coat.
(d) To make Lara a gift.

Short Answer Questions

1. Yuri returns to Moscow during the Soviet NEP period. What does NEP stand for?

2. In Part 2, Chapter 14, who annoys Yuri and Lara with his return to Yuriatin?

3. Gordon and Dudorov realize that Tonia is whose daughter?

4. Why does the White Army leave a mutilated man for the Red Army to discover?

5. How well do Yuri and Strelnikov get along when they meet in Varykino?

Short Essay Questions

1. The Tania in Epilogue of Dr. Zhivago is not Yuri's wife. Who is she and where did she come from?

2. Describe what happens when Yuri breaks Red Cross rules and uses a rifle.

3. Describe the rowan tree.

4. Why does Yuri not accompany Lara to Vladivostok?

5. In the Epilogue of Dr. Zhivago, Gordon and Dudorov discuss a woman named Christina. What has Christina done?

6. Lara and Yuri discover they share a common nemesis. Who is this person and what has he/she done to them?

7. Describe how the war affects Pamphil.

8. Why are Gordon and Dudorov interested in Yuri's book of poetry?

9. Describe what happens when Komarovsky shows up at Yuri and Lara's house in Yuriatin.

10. In Chapter 13, while in Yuritan, what does Lara want to have happen to her relationship with Yuri?

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