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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 is Alexander's response to Tatiana's pregnancy?

2. What does Nicolai try to find?

3. What was Misha fighting in 1855?

4. Who is Arina?

5. Where does Sergei work after school?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the relationship between Rosa Abramovich's and Peter Suvorin?

2. What is Karpenko's relationship with Nadezhda?

3. Describe the state of the opposition to the Tsar in Chapters 7 and 8.

4. Describe Alexander Bobrov's imprisonment.

5. Why does Pinegin want revenge against Sergei, and how does he get it?

6. What is Alexander Bobrov's relationship with Sergei?

7. Describe Savva Suvorin's arrival in Moscow.

8. What role do Madame Adelaide de Ronville's salons play in Russka?

9. What leads to Alexander Bobrov's arrest and imprisonment?

10. What happens to Nicolai and Grigory?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What contemporary cultural problems or cultural questions does "Russka" shed light on? What questions about an ongoing cultural situation does "Russka" help you understand?

Essay Topic 2

What foreign ideas, technologies, or other developments had the strongest influence?

Essay Topic 3

Why did Russia respond to the industrial revolution differently than the European countries? What Russian social structures and customs influenced its reaction to the industrial revolution?

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