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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 Dorn's job?

2. What does Trigorin say he is left behind like?

3. What does Nina give Dorn?

4. What does Nina say it is strange to see a famous actress doing?

5. What does Sorin drink with his dinner?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the people in the group talk about as they wait for the play to start?

2. Why does Constantine walk away from Paulina?

3. What does Yevgeny think is the sound that sounds like a gun shot?

4. Who are Masha and Simon Medvedenko?

5. Why does Masha want to marry Simon?

6. Why is Nina late for the performance?

7. Why does Simon wants to go home?

8. What do Madame Arkadina and Constantine argue about?

9. Why is Paulina worried about Yevgeny's attractions to Nina?

10. What is the setting of the second act?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the main themes of the story. In what way are these themes relevant to the time period? How does the author use character and setting to express these themes?

Essay Topic 2

Look at the generation gap between younger and the older characters. What different experiences did both generations go through? What problems is the generation gap causing the characters? Is generational gap expressed in Seagull particularly wide during this time or is a wide generational gap common to all ages?

Essay Topic 3

THE SEA GULL is translated from Russian into English. How much meaning can a play loses through a translation? What aspects of the play do you think would be the most difficult to express in English? How do you think a translator can overcome these difficulties?

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