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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 specialty of the doctor in "Yuletide Story"?
(a) Internal and children's diseases.
(b) Head and spinal injuries.
(c) Veterinary medicine.
(d) Chiropractic.

2. What perhaps causes the icy roar of the wind in "The Cave"?
(a) A storm.
(b) A misplaced polar bear.
(c) The wrath of God.
(d) A super-mammoth.

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

4. In "In Bondage," what does Antoshka say the peasants do to each other when they get mad?
(a) Poison each other.
(b) Ostracize each other.
(c) Fight each other with swords.
(d) Curse each other.

5. In what month does "Yuletide Story" take place?
(a) January.
(b) November.
(c) December.
(d) September.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is playing below the window when Martin Martinych comes over to Masha's house while she is playing piano?

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

4. In "Yuletide Story", who clears up the story of the middle-aged man for the doctor?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Varka so tired?

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

3. 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?

4. What does Grishchuk say about women and why?

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

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

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

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

9. What does Paka believe about the boys he sees passing by his house?

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

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