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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. In front of the Icon in "Sleepy", what color light is burning?
(a) Red.
(b) Green.
(c) Yellow.
(d) White.

2. Who lives downstairs from Masha and Martin Martinych?
(a) The Obertyshevs.
(b) The Vashenkos.
(c) The Oserovnayevs.
(d) The Vasilyevs.

3. Where do the narrator of "The Death of Dolgushov" and Grishchuk get fired upon near the town by enemy scouts?
(a) A cemetery.
(b) A mill.
(c) A carriage shop.
(d) A blacksmith's.

4. In "The Death of Dolgushov", who has reached the woods and posted their machine guns nearby?
(a) The Poles.
(b) The Croatians.
(c) The Czechs.
(d) The Serbs.

5. What is the unshaven porter wearing when the couple disembarks the boat in "Sunstroke"?
(a) Shabby black shoes.
(b) A pink shirt.
(c) Epaulets.
(d) Sunglasses.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month does "Yuletide Story" take place?

2. How old is Nanny Varka?

3. What does the doctor forget at the middle-aged citizen's apartment?

4. What item of the master's is Varka asked to clean?

5. In "Sunstroke," what river is the steamer traversing when the lieutenant meets the woman he has an attraction to?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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