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

2. In what is Zverkov an expert?
(a) Good manners.
(b) Politics.
(c) War.
(d) Women.

3. What does the writer do during the toast to Zverkov?
(a) Smashes his glass.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Shouts "Hurrah!" with the the others.
(d) Drinks before the toast is completed.

4. Where is Liza from?
(a) France.
(b) Riga.
(c) The writer's hometown.
(d) Germany.

5. What is it about the writer's experience with Liza that astonishes him?
(a) His pity for her.
(b) His bruteforce.
(c) His sentimentality.
(d) His love.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Part 2, Chapter 9, what is the writer's general feeling?

2. How does the writer "plunge into society"?

3. How does the writer feel about his schoolmate Zverkov?

4. How does the writer describe the feelings of his visitor in Part 2, Chapter 9?

5. The previous night, the writer gives Liza his address, but by the next day, how does the writer feel about this action?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the writer think Liza comes to his apartment?

2. Why is the writer surprised that Liza does not leave after being lied to and yelled at?

3. The writer seems very indecisive at times. While in the beginning of Part 2, Chapter 1 the writer states that he does not socialize with his co-workers, he later tells the reader that he sometimes tries to make friends with them. Discuss his feelings about this change in attitude toward the co-workers.

4. How does the writer try to cover up his feelings about Liza being at his apartment?

5. What is Zverkov's reaction to the writer's complaint about not being informed of the change in time for the dinner party?

6. In Part 2, Chapter 9, when Liza goes to the writer's apartment, why does he think she becomes embarrassed?

7. When Liza visits the writer at his home, the situation seems rather intense. What does the writer say that people often do in such situations?

8. The writer continues to ridicule Liza and her work and describes a rather somber death. What does the writer say a prostitute's death will be?

9. What does the writer want to do when the others arrive and what does he actually do?

10. Describe the characteristics of a romantic, according to the writer.

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