The Darling Quizzes

The Darling Quiz 1

1 What is Olenka's real first name?
Podlankha

Oleg

Olga

Olenka
2 Where does Kikun get detained?
Malta

St. Petersburg

Moscow

Kiev
3 What business is Pustolatov in?
Sea trading

Timber

Theatre

Gold
4 What part of Olenka's house is associated with her emotional state?
The roof

The garden

The stoop

Her father's chair
5 What name does Olenka use to refer to Sasha?
Sasha

Vassitchka

Smirnin

Sashenka
6 Where do we see Olenka telling someone about how the town needs a veterinarian?
The theatre

The market

The church

The post office
7 What was Chekhov's other career, besides writing?
Merchant

Publisher

Priest

Doctor
8 What disease did Chekhov have for much of his adult life?
Rheumatism

Tuberculosis

Diabetes

Syphilis
9 What is the name of Kikun's theater?
The Tivoli

The Old Vic

The Globe Theatre

The Tuscan
10 What object co we watch Olenka have no opinions about?
Her father's chair

A bottle

A piece of bread

The garden
11 Where do Olenka and Pustolatov meet?
At the market

Outside church

At Kikun's funeral

At her home
12 What is strange about the note Olenka receives announcing Kikun's death?
It is in the wrong language

There's a weird stain on it

There are misspellings

It's in Kikun's handwriting
13 What is Smirnin's occupation?
Anesthesiologist

Bar owner

Merchant

Veterinary surgeon
14 What is the name of Olenka's cook?
Mavra

Anton

Harkov

Sasha
15 What famous director put on important productions of Chekhov's work?
Jerzy Grotowski

Julie Taymor

Orson Welles

Konstantin Stanislavski
16 Who calls Olenka "darling"?
Women on the street

Kikun

Sasha

Men on the street
17 What sound from the theatre does Olenka hear at home?
Fireworks

Actors acting

People clapping

The theatre collapsing
18 Which of the following is a play put on at the Tivoli?
Lysistrata

The Seagull

Orpheus in Hell

Faust
19 How did Olenka obtain her house?
Inherited from her father

Bought by Pustolatov

Left by a stranger

Bought by herself
20 How does Olenka meet Kikun?
While working at the theater

He's lodging at her house

After attending a play

Introduced by a matchmaker
21 Which of the following characters does not die in the story?
Smirnin

Kikun

Pustolatov

Olenka's father
22 Where does Smirnin's wife disappear to later in the story?
Moscow

Harkov

Kiev

Siberia
23 What was the first type of literature Chekhov wrote early in his career?
Realist shorts

Journalistic work

Plays

Satirical shorts
24 What writer admired Chekhov's lack of beginning, middle, and end in his stories?
Leo Tolstoy

Margaret Atwood

Vladmir Nabakov

James Joyce
25 What sort of epidemic did Chekhov help treat outside of Moscow?
Tuburculosis

Influenza

Measles

Cholera

Evaluate the character of Olga to discuss the theme of co-dependency, love and identity in Anton Chekhov's "The Darling".

Identity:

Olenka, the titular "darling," has no identity outside of the men she loves. Her opinions, personality, and actions are entirely dictated by the interests of her current husband. In her first marriage, Olenka spends all her time at the...

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What are the names of the two Pustovalovs?

Vasily Andreyich and Olenka Pustovalov

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Tones

"What's the use of these theatres?"

(Situational Irony) Olenka retorts with this line when a friend suggests to her that she and Pustovalov should go to the theater to take a break from Pustovalov's business. When Kikun was still alive, all...

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The Darling

by Anton Chekhov

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