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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the stranger say he will be staying?
(a) In a friend’s apartment.
(b) In Berlioz’s apartment.
(c) In a hotel.
(d) In Berlioz’s office.

2. What nationality does the stranger admit to being?
(a) Austrian.
(b) Russian.
(c) English.
(d) German.

3. Whom does Stepa call?
(a) His accountant.
(b) His wife.
(c) The police.
(d) The treasurer of the theater.

4. What is Ivan trying to write?
(a) A re-telling of the Bible.
(b) An account of what happened to him.
(c) Pontius Pilate’s story.
(d) Berlioz’s biography.

5. Where did the young man in Chapter 15 hide his currency?
(a) In his WC.
(b) In his aunt’s basement.
(c) Under his bed.
(d) In a picture frame.

6. How does Berlioz die?
(a) Of natural causes.
(b) A heart attack.
(c) He is beheaded.
(d) From internal bleeding.

7. How does the show end?
(a) The performers sign autographs.
(b) All three performers disappear.
(c) The audience carries the performers off.
(d) The performers are arrested.

8. What had Dunhill done with his currency?
(a) Turned it in.
(b) Spent it on his mistress.
(c) Invested it.
(d) Lost it.

9. What are the theater men warned about the telegrams?
(a) Not to take them anywhere.
(b) To not let them out of sight.
(c) That they must be sent immediately.
(d) To keep them close at hand.

10. What must Ivan do to be able to leave?
(a) Walk in a straight line.
(b) Say he is normal.
(c) Write a letter.
(d) Prove his story.

11. When did the stranger arrive in Moscow?
(a) He is a native.
(b) Just this minute.
(c) Yesterday.
(d) Earlier today.

12. Why does Matthew steal a knife?
(a) In an attempt to free Yeshua.
(b) In an attempt to free himself.
(c) In an attempt to kill Yeshua.
(d) In an attempt to kill himself.

13. Where does Boisoi hide the extra 400 rubles?
(a) In the WC.
(b) With his wife.
(c) At his aunt’s house.
(d) Under his bed.

14. What upsets Ivan?
(a) The act of writing.
(b) Being imprisoned.
(c) His own mind.
(d) His friend’s death.

15. What does the doctor claim Ivan doesn’t have to do?
(a) Recover.
(b) Write.
(c) Go home.
(d) Stay at the clinic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the doctor’s diagnosis?

2. Whom does Ivan want to go see?

3. What is the doctor’s name?

4. How many proofs of God are there, according to the stranger?

5. What is the first kind of trick performed?

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