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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Father Lukas hope?

2. Why is Katerina angry at Ivan's offering?

3. Why does Yaga want Bear to kill Ivan?

4. What did Ivan note about Dimitri?

5. Who did Yaga promise the 'pleasure' of killing Ivan to?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does coupling and pregnancy affect Katerina's ability to utilize her power?

2. What dilemma does Katerina place on Father Lukas?

3. Why doesn't Esther take pupils and teach them what she knows, practice her witchcraft openly?

4. What shamed Katerina about the airplane, how did she react, and how did she rebuke herself for doing so?

5. How was Ivan tangled up in people's expectations of him on his wedding night, and his behavior?

6. What was the effect of the weapons of the future against the peasants of the Widow's army?

7. What choice does Ivan give his children that he didn't have himself?

8. Why did Mikola not write down his spells, despite the fact that he had thought about doing so?

9. How did Bear figure that things had worked out pretty evenly?

10. Why doesn't Ivan want to bring rockets into Taina?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Although Bear initially went to kill Ivan, he seems to have had a change of heart once Ivan frees him. Discuss this change of heart, and Bear's actions afterwards, and what this suggests about not only his desire to kill Ivan, but also about his relationship with Yaga.

Essay Topic 2

From Sergei's perspective, the reader learns that most of the fairy tales were used to scare children. Discuss why this is no longer practiced as a matter of cause in modern times, and the resources available to disprove such scare tactics, and make the argument for whether or not the world is more or less frightening for children.

Essay Topic 3

Utilizing modern feminism, condemn Katerina's attitude towards a husband's rights to her body and her actions, as well as her culture.

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