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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. How does Stepanych feel about his life in the months before his death?
(a) Everything is boring.
(b) Everyone seems nicer.
(c) Everything is happier.
(d) Nothing changes.

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

3. What is the ordinary conversation between Mikhail and Katya?
(a) Ill gossip about people.
(b) Praises for the theater.
(c) The latest in medicine.
(d) Stepanych's health.

4. What does Anna Sergeevna fear when she starts relations with Gurov?
(a) He will no longer respect her.
(b) That she will be judged a sinner.
(c) Her husband will find out.
(d) The town will talk about her.

5. Where do Dmitri Gurov and the lady with the dog first meet?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Yalta.
(c) Smryna.
(d) Petersburg.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Lady with the Little Dog", how does Gurov treat women?

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

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

4. What is strange about Belikov in "The Man in a Case"?

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

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