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True/False - Chekhov believed the use of adjectives and details were key to setting the scene of a play
False
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True/False - The Seagull was one of Chekhov’s most popular plays while he was alive
False
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Where are many of Chekhov’s stories and plays set?
The countryside
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"If you say in the first chapter that there is a _____ hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there."
rifle
100
What country did Chekhov originate from?
Russia
200
Name two examples of Chekhov short stories that have abrupt endings
Misery, The Pipe, etc.
200
The writing of subject matter that focuses on ordinary interactions and everyday life is known as _______.
Realism
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In what country were Chekhov’s works most popular?
England
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“My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our ______ .”
lying
200
True/False - Chekhov rarely left his readers with a lesson to be learned.
True
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For what reason does Chekhov include so many characters within his plays?
To better represent everyday life in which there is interaction with many people. Also illustrates real-life interactions with strangers.
300
Who did Chekhov use as a model of hypocrisy in many of his works?
His father
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Provide an example of an important event that occurs off-stage in one of Chekhov’s dramatic works
Auction in The Cherry Orchard
Attempted suicide/actual suicide in The Seagull
Shooting of the seagull in The Seagull
Nina's failures in life
etc
300
“When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder — that seems to give a kind of background to another's grief, against which it stands out more clearly. Whereas in your story the characters ____and you _____. Yes, be more cold. ... The more objective you are, the stronger will be the impression you make.”
cry/sigh
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Name two aspects of traditional works at the time.
rising/falling action
climax
protagonist/antagonist
author biases
etc.
400
Chekhov’s creative process was governed by ______________.
His belief that the role of the artist was not to answer questions but to ask them
400
Name two authors Chekhov often read during his young adulthood.
Cervantes
Turgenev
Goncharov
Schopenhauer
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In what year did the Moscow theatre revive The Cherry Orchard?
1898
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"You are confusing two concepts:___________ and ____________ . Only the second is obligatory for an artist."
the solution of a problem --- the correct posing of a question
400
Who is referred to as the "Chekhov of the suburbs" and why?
John Cheever, revealed important aspects of characters through seemingly insignificant events