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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. When the couple in "Sunstroke" wakes up in the morning, what does the lieutenant smell in the air?
(a) Hay and tar.
(b) Smoke.
(c) A perfume factory.
(d) Baking bread.

2. In "Yuletide Story", who clears up the story of the middle-aged man for the doctor?
(a) The constable.
(b) The aunt.
(c) The grocer.
(d) The militia.

3. How old is Nanny Varka?
(a) Seventy.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Twenty-seven.
(d) Thirteen.

4. What sort of steamer does the woman take when she leaves the lieutenant in "Sunstroke"?
(a) A Samolyot steamer.
(b) A paddle steamer.
(c) A Samovar steamer.
(d) A stern-wheeler steamer.

5. Whose scouts are scouring the field looking for the dead and for equipment in "The Death of Dolgushov"?
(a) Korochayev's.
(b) Timoshka's.
(c) Vytyagaichenko's.
(d) Afonka's.

Short Answer Questions

1. In front of the Icon in "Sleepy", what color light is burning?

2. What does Grishchuk have with him all the time?

3. What perhaps causes the icy roar of the wind in "The Cave"?

4. How is the woman who comes to the doctor's office in "Yuletide Story" described?

5. What does Paka see on the eldest boy that surprises him?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Yuletide Story," what does the doctor think when he goes to the patient's apartment after his aunt tells him he has died?

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

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

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

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

6. What does Grishchuk say about women and why?

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

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

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

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

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