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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sleepy by Anton Chekhov.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the newspaper clerk offer Major Kovalyov as he is leaving his office?
(a) Bad advice.
(b) A copy of Molière's "Cyrano de Bergerac".
(c) A cigarette.
(d) Snuff.

2. What does Major Kovalyov give the police officer as he is leaving?
(a) A gold watch.
(b) Snuff.
(c) A red bank note.
(d) Some bread.

3. What is the name of Varka's mother?
(a) Agafia.
(b) Evgenia.
(c) Pelageya.
(d) Fekla.

4. The young man who dies of "complications" goes to which doctor before he dies?
(a) Schultz.
(b) Eck.
(c) Vasiliev.
(d) Botkin.

5. To whom is Lukerya betrothed when she is a young girl?
(a) Borislav Ivanovich.
(b) Sergei Andropov.
(c) Nikolai Bogdanovich.
(d) Vasily Polyakov.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who goes hunting with Pyotr Petrovich in "A Living Relic"?

2. What does Varka think the hardest thing is to do when she is standing in front of the kitchen table?

3. What does Ivan Ivanovich end his thinking with while sitting on the tombstone?

4. What is the name of Varka's late father?

5. What does a friend who stops by Ivan Ivanovich's place say of his writing style?

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