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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is gaining weight according to the observations of the other characters in the play?
(a) Irina
(b) Andrei
(c) Masha
(d) Olga

2. Who mentions his wife and daughters at the end of the scene?
(a) Tusenbach
(b) Andrei
(c) Vershinin
(d) Chebutykin

3. What is heard as the characters are speaking during this second part of the Act 1?
(a) A siren
(b) A knock at the door
(c) A violin
(d) An air raid horn

4. Who is NOT one of the three sisters who are the title characters of this play?
(a) Irina
(b) Masha
(c) Natasha
(d) Olga

5. Who was born and raised in an aristocratic family?
(a) Olga
(b) Andrei
(c) Tusenbach
(d) Chebutykin

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character says he loved the sisters' mother?

2. Which character says that teaching gives her headaches, becoming one of the many complaints this character has?

3. Who do they say is going to be a professor one day because he is so smart?

4. How long ago did the family leave Moscow to come to the provincial area where they are now settled?

5. How old is the character of Vershinin?

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