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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Vassily use to serve as a doctor?
(a) Mental patients
(b) The marines
(c) Cancer victims
(d) The army

2. Why can Pavel not make suggestions about how to run the farm?
(a) He does not like the farm
(b) His brother has to sort out his own problems
(c) He is not trained in such matters
(d) It will cost him money

3. Where does Anna summon Arkady the next morning?
(a) The conservatory
(b) Her room
(c) The kitchen
(d) The drawing room

4. Why does Vassily decide not to tell his wife that their son is leaving?
(a) She won't care
(b) She will fuss
(c) She will get angry
(d) It will break her heart

5. Who does Bazarov think that Arkady is having an affair with?
(a) Anna
(b) Sonja
(c) Katya
(d) Fenitchka

6. How does Bazarov contract typhus?
(a) He uses the man's tooth brush
(b) He tries to resusitate the man
(c) He touches the man with his naked skin
(d) He cuts himself

7. What do Bazorov and Arkady hear playing in the distance?
(a) The violin
(b) The clarinet
(c) The flute
(d) The guitar

8. For which of the following reason does Arkady claim to like Katya?
(a) She likes Putin
(b) She has good fashion sense
(c) She has beautiful hands
(d) She likes to obey

9. What do Bazarov and Arkady have a heated discussion about later that afternoon?
(a) Families
(b) The nature of human beings
(c) How to make porridge
(d) Nihilism

10. What was Fenitchka's mother's job at the rooming house?
(a) A domestic
(b) A landlady
(c) A chimney sweeper
(d) A waitress

11. Why won't Katya come out of her room?
(a) She is with a man
(b) She is ill
(c) She is not wearing her make up
(d) She is crying

12. What does Pavel challenge Bazarov to?
(a) A wrestle
(b) A soccer match
(c) A duel
(d) A game of cards

13. Who does Anna bring with her?
(a) Arkady
(b) A British physician
(c) A priest
(d) A German physician

14. Whose door does Pavel knock on when he returns to the house?
(a) Nikolai
(b) Fenitchka
(c) Arkady
(d) Bazorov

15. Who occasionally addresses the reader?
(a) The author
(b) Bazarov
(c) Arkady
(d) Anna

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Vasily's profession?

2. What does Bazarov have to perform on the man?

3. What does Arkady do immediately after telling Kaya he puts her above anyone else?

4. Where do Arkady and Bazarov go after Nikolskoe?

5. What does Arkady think there may be value in?

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