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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: “1926: Adieu”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the Count planning on meeting with Mishka in the beginning of Book 2: "1923: An Actress, an Apparition, an Apiary"?
(a) The hotel coffee shop.
(b) The Piazza.
(c) The Boyarsky.
(d) The Shalyapin.

2. Of the Count, the narrator says in Book 2: "1926: Adieu," "his philosophical leanings had always been essentially" what?
(a) "Meteorological."
(b) "Religious."
(c) "Based on chance."
(d) "Fateful."

3. Who is the baron that managed the Hotel Metropole when the Count's godfather was involved in a duel?
(a) Audrius.
(b) Arkady.
(c) Keffler.
(d) Fyodor.

4. What is the title of the poem that is credited to Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov that opens the novel?
(a) "Dancing."
(b) "The Round Table."
(c) "The Battle Station."
(d) "Where Is It Now?"

5. What Shakespearean play does the author allude to when describing the Count's appointment in Book 1: "An Appointment"?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) Twelfth Night.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) Henry V.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Count Rostov give as his current address in the court transcript that appears before the opening of Book 1?

2. By what affectionate name does the Count refer to the grand dining room off the lobby at the Hotel Metropole?

3. By what name does the Count call the one-eyed cat at the Hotel Metropole?

4. What is the name of Dr. Stahlbaum's children?

5. In Book 2: "1926: Adieu," the Count learns that the statue of Gogol was replaced with a statue of whom at the Arbat Andreyev's?

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