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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Rag compare his timidity to?
(a) A bird's.
(b) A kitten's.
(c) A turtle's.
(d) A bunny's.

2. How many months of deposit money did Ordynov give Schpies?
(a) 9.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 12.

3. Why do Mr. Prohartchin's co-lodgers feel bitter towards him?
(a) He complains too much.
(b) He keeps a dog.
(c) He eats too much food.
(d) He pays lower rent.

4. Who inappropriately tries to court Katerina?
(a) Her stepfather.
(b) Her godfather.
(c) Her uncle.
(d) Her father.

5. How old is the child in 'A Little Hero'?
(a) 11.
(b) 8.
(c) 10.
(d) 9.

Short Answer Questions

1. What started the discussion about Emelyanoushka?

2. Who teases the boy in 'A Little Hero'?

3. What does Katerina cry about selling?

4. What kind of lodgers did the landlady like to house?

5. What does Shumkov say he did in spite of himself?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the younger man in 'Another Man's Wife' confess to doing and why?

2. Who was Ivanitch searching for in 'A Novel in Nine Letters'?

3. What does Ivanitch find out about Pyotr's wife?

4. How does the old man get Katerina to stay with him?

5. What happened when Ivan went into the room of a strange woman?

6. How does 'Polzunkov' end?

7. How did Dostoyevsky end 'A Little Hero'?

8. What is the woman who Yulian wants interested most in?

9. How had Yaroslav changed when Ordynov saw him at the end of 'The Landlady'?

10. How does 'A Christmas Tree & A Wedding, White Nights' begin and end?

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