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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sonya sends Marina off to deal with some of the _____________.
(a) Other servants.
(b) The salespeople.
(c) Other men.
(d) Workers.

2. Astrov and Vanya both comment on the beauty of ___________ as well as on the overcoat of the Professor.
(a) Maria.
(b) Marina.
(c) Yelena.
(d) Sonya.

3. Who doesn't Sonya want involved in the drunken binges of Astrov?
(a) Herself.
(b) Maria.
(c) Vanya.
(d) Yelena.

4. __________ says that a woman can only be a friend once they have been an acquaintance and then a mistress.
(a) The Professor.
(b) Vanya.
(c) Telegin.
(d) Astrov.

5. Astrov becomes lost in a memory of the community in which there was an epidemic of ___________.
(a) Flu.
(b) Typhoid.
(c) Ebola.
(d) AIDS.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Astrov joke about during this opening scene, saying that it is oversized?

2. Vanya says the Yelena is faithful in her marriage, but her faithfulness is _______________.

3. Where is the beginning of Act Two set as the play opens again?

4. The Professors tells Vanya to go, that they used to be ____________ and will talk another time.

5. Astrov admits to Vanya that he came back to the house in order to see which character?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Yelena say when Vanya comments that she staggers as she walks from sheer laziness?

2. What does Vanya go out to do in order to make Yelena feel better?

3. What does Sonya say she will tell Astrov in order to get him to come into the room?

4. What does Astrov fear will happen if Vanya kills himself with a vial of morphine?

5. What does Yelena do when the Professor wakes up from his nap on the chair?

6. What does Astrov admit to Vanya when he enters the scene with Telegin?

7. What happened when Astrov, in his memory, tried to operate on a patient who died on the table?

8. Why doesn't the Professor want the two women to go and to leave Vanya alone with him?

9. What does Astrov admit to Yelena in reference to his feelings about Sonya when Yelena asks him?

10. What does the workman request when he walks into the scene where the rest of the characters are?

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