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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Stories 7 through 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Yegor dislike about the village?
(a) The noise.
(b) The poverty.
(c) The arrogance.
(d) The large population.

2. What is the total number of time Cherviakov attempts to apologize to the General?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Once.
(d) Twenty.

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

4. Why does Grigoriev steal a nut?
(a) For fun.
(b) To use as a sinker.
(c) He was dared to by a friend.
(d) To see if he could.

5. What does the judge discover about an accident from the previous year?
(a) Grigoriev is the one behind it all.
(b) The wrong man is in jail for last year's accident.
(c) The derailment is caused by the village people taking the nuts.
(d) Mitrofan Petrov is the leader of the nut stealers and caused the accident.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vanka remember about Christmastime?

2. What does the judge think of Grigoriev?

3. What insulting word does Andreich call his daughter Maria?

4. What special gift did Nikolai have as a monk?

5. How does Yegor describe himself?

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