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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapters IV, V and VI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who sits to the left of the writer at the dinner party?
(a) Simonov.
(b) Ferichkin.
(c) Zverkov.
(d) Truboiubov.

2. What does the writer state is man's ultimate shortcoming?
(a) Continual impropriety.
(b) Abillity to love others.
(c) Will.
(d) Ungratefullness.

3. What does the writer compare his writings to?
(a) The Waganheims.
(b) The moan of a man with a toothache.
(c) The mouse.
(d) The man faced with the wall.

4. How does the writer define desire?
(a) As a manifestation of life.
(b) An unwillfull act of man.
(c) A justification to do wrong.
(d) A law of nature.

5. What does the writer state man wants to cling to?
(a) Abject foolishness.
(b) The greatness of others.
(c) The laws of nature.
(d) Revenge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the writer say about the man who groans from a toothache for more than three or four days?

2. At the beginning of Part 2, Chapter 5, the writer has left the dinner and is outside. How does he describe the snow?

3. How does the writer feel about the time of his arrival at the dinner party?

4. What two things does the writer state are most precious to man?

5. Just before the writer gets into the sleigh, what does he decide he must do?

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