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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Stories 11 through 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Stepanych and his wife discuss every morning?
(a) His health and their son.
(b) Liza.
(c) The weather.
(d) Katya.

2. Why does Osip leave Olga?
(a) He dies from diphtheria.
(b) He pursues an academic career in Germany.
(c) He leaves her when she announces her love for Ryabovsky.
(d) Osip leaves because Olga is too dramatic.

3. What is a panikhida?
(a) A type of bread.
(b) A commemorative prayer for the dead.
(c) A celebration of the living.
(d) A formal apology to God.

4. To whom does Vanka write to on Christmas Eve?
(a) His old miss.
(b) His grandfather.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

5. What is Grigoriev's punishment?
(a) A year of imprisonment.
(b) Putting new nuts on the rail lines.
(c) Convincing his village to stop taking nuts from the rail lines.
(d) A term of hard labor.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Fidget", Osip Dymov is __________.

2. How does Anyuta help Stepan's studies?

3. What do Ieronym and the passenger see so beautiful in the sky as they cross the river?

4. What makes Nevyrazimov feel better?

5. According to Stepanych, what does Pyotr lack to set the world on fire?

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