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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. In front of the Icon in "Sleepy", what color light is burning?
(a) Red.
(b) Green.
(c) White.
(d) Yellow.

2. Where does Ivan Yakovlevich go to dispose of the nose he finds in his bread?
(a) Dolya Bridge.
(b) St. Isaac's Bridge.
(c) Police Bridge.
(d) Anichkin Bridge.

3. What does Varka think the hardest thing is to do when she is standing in front of the kitchen table?
(a) Peel potatoes.
(b) Listen to the baby cry.
(c) Mend bandages.
(d) Chop onions.

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

5. What does Ivan Ivanovich end his thinking with while sitting on the tombstone?
(a) Subliminal messages.
(b) Astonishment.
(c) Languidness.
(d) Legendary status.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a friend of Ivan Ivanovich's say he thirsts to feel?

2. In "The Clothesmender", what is the name of the real estate agent who makes the sign for the tailor?

3. Who suggests in "Bobok" that the corpses should no longer be ashamed?

4. What is the name of the type of small wattle shed or hut that Pyotr Petrovich finds next to the bee-garden?

5. What does Major Kovalyov give the police officer as he is leaving?

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