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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. What does Dolgushov give to the narrator?
(a) His mother's ring.
(b) His papers.
(c) Twenty rubles.
(d) A love letter to his girlfriend.

2. What does the house-chairman in "The Cave" jokingly say he prefers when asked if he would like some tea?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Bordeaux.
(c) Irish cream.
(d) Champagne.

3. What does Paka say his name would be if he were a common boy and not a prince?
(a) Pavel.
(b) Prokopy.
(c) Pasha.
(d) Pyotr.

4. Where is Dolgushov injured?
(a) His head.
(b) His legs.
(c) His back.
(d) His belly.

5. In "The Death of Dolgushov", who is the disgraced commander of the Fourth Division?
(a) Martinych.
(b) Radziwillow.
(c) Selikhov.
(d) Korochayev.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Paka asked why the boys are armed as they are, who do they say they are?

2. When the couple in "Sunstroke" wakes up in the morning, what does the lieutenant smell in the air?

3. How much does the prescription cost that the doctor issues to the middle-aged citizen in "Yuletide Story"?

4. What is the name of the master's apprentice who snores in "Sleepy"?

5. In "Sunstroke", what does the lieutenant hear in the cathedral?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Zamyatin describe the bedroom where Martin Martinych and Masha stay in "The Cave"?

2. What happens to the narrator and Grishchuk as evening falls in "The Death of Dolgushov"?

3. What do the three brothers do during the summer months in "In Bondage"?

4. What does the lieutenant in "Sunstroke" do when he goes back to the hotel room alone?

5. What happens when Varka decides she must be free of what shackles her at the end of Sleepy?

6. In "The Death of Dolgushov", what does a wounded delegate say when Vytyagaichenko is leaving him and the other wounded and how does Vytyagaichenko respond?

7. Why does Selikhov come over to Martin Martinych's place?

8. What does Zoshchenko write about "Yuletide Story"?

9. What does Antoshka say when Paka asks why he and his brother laugh all the time?

10. What happens to Varka's father in the hospital and why?

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