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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “God Sees the Truth, But Waits” pp. 112-117 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of “God Sees the Truth But Waits”?
(a) Turgenev.
(b) Dostoevsky.
(c) Nabokov.
(d) Tolstoy.

2. What does Aksionov tell the person who visits his cell the night he was questioned by the guard about the tunnel?
(a) He asks the person to kill him.
(b) He says to leave or he will call the guard.
(c) He says he is getting released.
(d) He says they should escape through the tunnel right away.

3. Where does Aksionov stop to stay half way to his destination at the beginning of the story?
(a) An inn.
(b) His brother’s house.
(c) He sleeps outside.
(d) His friend’s house.

4. What is something Aksionov does NOT think of in bed the night he first met Semyonich?
(a) Writing to the Czar once more.
(b) Getting his revenge.
(c) How his wife told him not to go to the fair.
(d) His children.

5. How does Aksionov’s wife react when she sees him in jail for the first time?
(a) She calls him a murderer.
(b) She tells him he is getting out.
(c) She says he looks awful.
(d) She passes out.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aksionov’s wife ask him in jail, which upsets him?

2. What does Makar Semyonich beg Aksionov for after he confesses to him what he did?

3. What does Aksionov do after he is taken away by the soldiers and the officer?

4. How does Aksionov feel after thinking of the 26 years he spent in prison for another man’s crime?

5. Who emerges from their vehicle to approach Aksionov and question him at the inn?

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