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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 playing below the window when Martin Martinych comes over to Masha's house while she is playing piano?
(a) A violin.
(b) A trumpet.
(c) An organ-grinder.
(d) A bassoon.

2. In "Yuletide Story", what does the doctor prescribe for the middle-aged citizen?
(a) Hawthorn root extract.
(b) Elixir of arsenic.
(c) Ammoniac aniseed drops.
(d) Lemon oil.

3. 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 stern-wheeler steamer.
(d) A Samovar steamer.

4. Where is Dolgushov injured?
(a) His legs.
(b) His belly.
(c) His back.
(d) His head.

5. What does the aunt of the middle-aged citizen want from the doctor?
(a) A bandage.
(b) A house call for her ailing nephew.
(c) More medicine.
(d) A death certificate.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where do the narrator of "The Death of Dolgushov" and Grishchuk get fired upon near the town by enemy scouts?

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

4. In "Sunstroke", what does the lieutenant slap his boots with while contemplating the woman's absence in the hotel room?

5. What is the occupation of Varka's master?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does Grishchuk say about women and why?

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

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

9. Describe the condition Dolgushov is in when he is found. Who has done this to him?

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

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