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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When the guests come to the house, in "Sleepy" what is Varka asked to run and get from the store?

3. What is the fabric the woman on the steamer's dress made of in "Sunstroke"?

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

5. What does Dolgushov give to the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How do the peasant women treat the lieutenant at the market in "Sunstroke"?

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

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

8. Why is Varka so tired?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why doesn't the narrator kill Dolgushov in "The Death of Dolgushov"? What does he do instead? What condition is Dolgushov in? Why does he seek death?

Essay Topic 2

How does Paka describe what has supposedly happened to his real mother to the three brothers? What do they think of the situation? What do they do about it? What happens as a result of their actions?

Essay Topic 3

What is Ivan Ivanovich's impression of the scene at the funeral he attends in "Bobok"? What does he say of the mourners? The smell? What is his impression of the faces of the corpses?

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