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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Stories 26 and 27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Stepanych and his wife discuss every morning?
(a) His health and their son.
(b) Katya.
(c) The weather.
(d) Liza.

2. Why haven't Vasilisa and her husband received any word from Yefimya?
(a) Andrei forbids her to contact her parents.
(b) Andrei did not mail Yefimya's letters.
(c) Yefimya is too busy to write.
(d) Yefimya is too ill to write.

3. What does Stepanych think of Katya?
(a) She is too foolish to make it in this world.
(b) She is innocent and naive.
(c) She is too brash for men.
(d) She is too timid to be in theater.

4. What embitters Nikolai Stepanych about his children?
(a) They continue to ask him for money.
(b) They do not help him during his financial troubles.
(c) Their choice of careers.
(d) The choice of spouses.

5. What is constantly on Nikolai Stepanych's mind?
(a) Liza and Mr. Gnekker.
(b) Dying.
(c) How he needs smarter students.
(d) His lack of tenure at the university.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Yegor and Vasilisa's son-in-law have in common?

2. What is Belikov and Kovalenko's relationship like?

3. What is so different about Anna from the other women Gurov usually meets?

4. Why do the women in town get excited about Belikov's life?

5. Why does Zhenya discontinue seeing the artist?

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