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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 Anna declare when Bazarov tells her he is leaving?
(a) They will never meet again
(b) They will meet again
(c) They will be married
(d) She is in love with him

2. What does Pavel say he can endure no longer?
(a) The ridicule of his beliefs
(b) The farm
(c) Arkady
(d) Bazarov

3. Why does Arkady not like Katya?
(a) She agrees with everything
(b) She is too quiet
(c) She is not good looking
(d) She seems dark and petulant

4. Who is the first awake in the morning?
(a) Nikolai
(b) Pavel
(c) Bazarov
(d) Arkady

5. Where does Kolyazin invite the two young men to?
(a) A restaurant
(b) His friends house
(c) The fireman's ball
(d) The governor's ball

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Nikolai offer to put Fenitchka during his son's stay?

2. What do Pavel and Nikolai share?

3. How far from the postal station is Nikolai's home?

4. What does Nikolai wonder how Arkady and Bazorov could reject?

5. Who in the household find a friend in Bazorov?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way has Barazov's presence at the farm created tension?

2. What comment do you think Turgenev is making about love in this book?

3. Why do you think Turgenev sometimes addresses the reader directly?

4. What prompts Arkady to declare his love for Katya?

5. Why does Bazarov decide to go home?

6. How does Arkady claim he has changed since falling in love with Katya?

7. How does Bazarov and Arkady's ideas begin to differ in chapter 9?

8. In what way does Nikolai show jealously towards his brother Pavel in chapter 9?

9. What does Arkady like about Katya?

10. What suggestion is there in chapter 20 that Bazarov and Arkady maybe changing their perspective on life?

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