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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 does Trigorin say has made him giddy?

2. What would Nina devote her whole life to if she was a writer?

3. What does Treplieff say he would be if his mother was an ordinary woman?

4. Where does Arkadina say she would be rather sitting alone?

5. What does Sorin say Arkadina should not handle so roughly?

Short Essay Questions

1. What prompted Constantine to kill himself?

2. Why does Constantine walk away from Paulina?

3. Why does Peter like being surrounded by young artists?

4. What do Masha and Simon discuss?

5. How does Madame Arkadina react to the play?

6. What news in the second act act delights Boris?

7. What is the weather like at the beginning of the fourth act?

8. Why does Boris want to stay at the estate?

9. Why are Simon and Yevgeny so poor?

10. How does Boris react when Madame Arkadina says they leave?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the values of the 1900s.

In what ways are the characters a product of their time?

How does the play express the changes Russian was going through at the time?

Does modern society share any values with 1900s Russia?

Essay Topic 2

How has Madame Arkadina's tightness with money affected those close to her? Does Madame Arkadina have a responsibility to those close to her?

Essay Topic 3

Compare American and Russian culture.

What are the differences between the two cultures?

In what way have the two cultures influenced each other?

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