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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Stories 11 through 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What apprenticeship does Vanka work in?
(a) Shoemaking.
(b) Pottery.
(c) Law.
(d) Blacksmithing.

2. What brought Gusev away to the Far East?
(a) Military service.
(b) Exile.
(c) There was promise of money as a merchant.
(d) A woman.

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

4. What does the judge think of Grigoriev?
(a) He thinks Grigoriev is mentally unstable.
(b) He thinks highly of the man but not his actions.
(c) He believes Grigoriev is a liar.
(d) He feels pity for the poor fellow.

5. What does Vanka remember about Christmastime?
(a) Making cookies with the cooks in the master's house.
(b) Decorating the tree with his parents.
(c) Getting the tree with his grandfather.
(d) An orange in his stocking one year.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when the General is so angry with Cherviakov, he yells "Get out"?

2. Why is Varka happy to fetch the firewood?

3. How does Vanka learn how to read and write?

4. In "Peasant Woman", what does Dyudya enjoy about having visitors?

5. Why does Andreich believe it is acceptable to call Maria by an insulting name?

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