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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. What is the purpose of the dinner party?
(a) One of the firends is going on a journey.
(b) To visit with the writer, whom the others had not see in years.
(c) It is a weekly event.
(d) To celebrate the promotion of one of the friends.

2. Just before the writer gets into the sleigh, what does he decide he must do?
(a) Ask the fare.
(b) Go back and slap Zverkov.
(c) Apologize to the group.
(d) Give back the six roubles.

3. What does the writer say all men must accept?
(a) The wall.
(b) Nature.
(c) Pain.
(d) Consciousness.

4. What is the only thing that can stop a vengeful man?
(a) The wall.
(b) His conscience.
(c) His friends.
(d) Victory.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the writer say about the laws of mathematics and nature?

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

3. Despite what the writer wants to do during the dinner, what does he do?

4. Near the end of the dinner in Part 2, Chapter 4, during the writer's toast, what does he say he hates?

5. How do the others feel about the toast the writer gives at the end of the dinner party?

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