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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 the narrator of "Yuletide Story" say has likely caused the doctor's voice to grow husky and cracked?
(a) Alcohol consumption.
(b) Eating coarse food.
(c) Yelling at his nurses.
(d) Being around sick people.

2. What does Dolgushov say to use on him when the narrator finds him?
(a) Morphine.
(b) Antibiotics.
(c) A knife.
(d) A cartridge.

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. In the morning, what is Varka asked to do after she lights the stove?
(a) Wash the dishes.
(b) Put on the samovar.
(c) Run to the store.
(d) Wash the clothes.

5. What will Varka's employers do if she falls asleep?
(a) Lock her in the closet.
(b) Send her for coal in the snow.
(c) Fire her.
(d) Beat her.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are nurses doing as they lie in the grass in "The Death of Dolgushov"?

3. Where does the lieutenant in "Sunstroke" go first to assuage his loneliness for the woman?

4. Where is Dolgushov injured?

5. In "The Death of Dolgushov", who has reached the woods and posted their machine guns nearby?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Sunstroke", why is the woman unwilling to continue her relationship with the lieutenant?

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

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

4. What does Grishchuk say about women and why?

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

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

7. In "In Bondage", what happens during the dinner party of Paka's mother and afterward?

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

9. What is Masha's condition in "The Cave"?

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

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