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

2. In "At Christmastime", whom does Vasilisa ask to help her write a letter to her daughter?
(a) The tavern keeper.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Yegor.
(d) The cook.

3. What do Yegor and Vasilisa's son-in-law have in common?
(a) They were both soldiers.
(b) They came from Petersburg.
(c) They are both revolutionists.
(d) They are both doorkeepers.

4. What is strange about Belikov in "The Man in a Case"?
(a) He suffers from paranoia.
(b) He covers himself extensively.
(c) He dislikes sunny weather.
(d) He talks aloud to himself.

5. Where does Dmitri Gurov look to meet Anna in S.?
(a) By the pier.
(b) Opening night at the theater.
(c) Outside her bedroom window.
(d) At the museums.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Vasilisa have trouble writing a letter to her daughter?

2. How does Nikolai Ivanych get his dream estate?

3. What is it about Mr. Gnekker that worries Nikolai Stepanych?

4. What is Yefimya's relationship with her husband like?

5. What is Nikolai the porter's proficiency?

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