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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 is the name of the house-chairman who comes over to Martin Martinych's place at dusk?
(a) Zoliesky.
(b) Zeremensky.
(c) Sakharov.
(d) Selikhov.

2. What does Paka think of the boys who pass his house on the road?
(a) They are rich.
(b) They are sick.
(c) They are stupid.
(d) They are lucky.

3. When the guests come to the house, in "Sleepy" what is Varka asked to run and get from the store?
(a) Three bottles of beer.
(b) A wheel of cheese.
(c) Two jars of pickles.
(d) Some lamb.

4. What sort of eau de cologne scent is left in the hotel by the woman in "Sunstroke"?
(a) Spanish.
(b) English.
(c) Italian.
(d) French.

5. How does the aunt put out the candles in "Yuletide Story"?
(a) By turning them upside down and smashing the wicks.
(b) By blowing them out.
(c) With a snuffer.
(d) With her fingers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Varka's mother?

2. Who is charged with watching over Paka?

3. What is the specialty of the doctor in "Yuletide Story"?

4. What part of the body does the middle-aged citizen who comes to visit the doctor in "Yuletide Story" complain about?

5. Where is Dolgushov injured?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the doctor say that Varka's father should do in the dream she has while holding the baby?

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

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

4. In "Yuletide Story", what does the doctor think of patients in general?

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

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

7. How are the conditions at the Obertyshevs' place?

8. In "Sunstroke", how does the woman react to the lieutenant's suggestion that they get off the boat together?

9. How is the doctor in "Yuletide Story" described?

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

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