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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Overcoat.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Ivan not want to marry Grigor's sister?
(a) He has a broken heart.
(b) He does not love the woman.
(c) He wants to go back to the army.
(d) He is not the marrying kind.

2. What does Ivan have nightmares about at the end of the story?
(a) Drinking coffee.
(b) Having a wife.
(c) Having a child.
(d) Visiting the dentist.

3. Where does Gorobets bring Katerina and her baby for protection?
(a) St. Petersburg.
(b) Kiev.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Perm.

4. Who does the blond girl marry in this story?
(a) Deepak.
(b) Piskarev.
(c) Pirogev.
(d) Schiller.

5. What does the devil do to the town?
(a) He floods it in darkness.
(b) He floods it with water.
(c) He sets it alight.
(d) He steals all the women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the church elder like to drink?

2. Why have the general and his friends arrived at Phythagor's house?

3. Who does Prirogov dream the young could have been?

4. What is the name of the village church?

5. What does Ivanovich do with the letter when he reads Sophie wants to marry someone else?

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