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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Stories 17 through 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Varka do finally to get some sleep?
(a) Strangle the baby.
(b) Pay the apprentice to watch the baby.
(c) Strangle the master and his wife.
(d) Leave the house and sleep outside.

2. What causes Anyuta to cry?
(a) The neighbor treats her badly.
(b) Stepan wants to separate.
(c) Stepan yells at her for being stupid.
(d) Anyuta wants to move out.

3. What is Stepan studying?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Art.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Russian literature.

4. What is the ordinary conversation between Mikhail and Katya?
(a) Stepanych's health.
(b) Praises for the theater.
(c) Ill gossip about people.
(d) The latest in medicine.

5. What does Stepanych think of Katya?
(a) She is too foolish to make it in this world.
(b) She is too timid to be in theater.
(c) She is too brash for men.
(d) She is innocent and naive.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What empowers Anya in her marriage?

4. Why does the orchestra reluctantly call on Yakov to play with them?

5. What is the total number of time Cherviakov attempts to apologize to the General?

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