View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Ivan's reason for going back to the clearing?
(a) To meet the princess.
(b) To mend the tear in his psyche.
(c) All of these.
(d) To slay the beast guarding the woman.

2. What did Vanya's family lose?
(a) Their communities respect.
(b) Their dignity.
(c) Their apartment.
(d) All of these.

3. What did Ivan say in Old Church Slavonic?
(a) None of these.
(b) "You are beautiful and wise and I intend to marry you."
(c) "Your lips are the red of a thousand apples, and your eyes the green of none".
(d) "Honey could not be as sweet as your smile, nor wine as intoxicating as your laugh".

4. What had haunted Ivan about the chasm?
(a) The thing beneath the leaves.
(b) The trees and the circular clearing.
(c) The woman on the pedestal.
(d) None of these.

5. Where did Vanya's plane land?
(a) Vienna.
(b) Oslo.
(c) Prague.
(d) London.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had been the burden on Ivan's shoulders?

2. What word did Ivan not know in Old Church Slavonic?

3. What does Ivan's mother pretend to do?

4. What do his classmates call Vanya?

5. Why couldn't Ivan walk away and leave this task to someone else?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 254 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample