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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 brings Anna back home to her husband?
(a) Her husband suspects her affair and demands that she return immediately.
(b) Gurov disrespects her and she runs to her husband for assurance.
(c) Anna feels guilty for her actions and wants to seek forgiveness.
(d) Anna's husband is ill.

2. What is most important to Lida Volchaninova?
(a) Getting married.
(b) Providing for her mother and sister.
(c) Having children.
(d) Local politics and helping the needy.

3. What is Yefimya's relationship with her husband like?
(a) She loves him dearly.
(b) It is very formal and arranged.
(c) She fears him.
(d) He loves her more than she can return.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Ivan Ivanych and Burkin call on Alekhin in "Gooseberries"?

2. What is Nikolai the porter's proficiency?

3. How do Alekhin and Burkin view Ivan's story about Nikolai and the gooseberries?

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

5. How does Stepanych feel about his life in the months before his death?

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