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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 Nicolai's relation with Misha?

2. What does Misha find out about Nicolai and Popov's situation?

3. Who is Count Benckendorft?

4. By whom does Tatiana become pregnant?

5. What is Procopy present for?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Tatiana's relationship with Savva Suvorin.

2. How does Daniel die?

3. What does Savva Suvorin do after he is freed?

4. What is Karpenko's relationship with Nadezhda?

5. Describe Savva Suvorin's arrival in Moscow.

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

7. What was Tsar Peter's plan for modernizing Russia?

8. Who is Pavlo, and what is his role in Russka?

9. How did the revolution of 1905 begin in Russia?

10. Describe Nicolai's discussion with Popov on the train to Moscow.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

If you were to boil Russian history down to a few main themes, what would you say are the primary oppositions, century to century? How did the progress of history change the nature of those oppositions? How did the past affect how Russia encountered these changes?

Essay Topic 2

Write an evaluative review of "Russka". What is this book's place in culture? What are its uses? Who is its audience? What are its limitations?

Essay Topic 3

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

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