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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 happens at Pelageya's cottage on Easter?
(a) Yegor and Pelageya get married.
(b) Yegor comes by drunk and beats her.
(c) Yegor comes by with a ham to celebrate with her.
(d) Pelageya makes a nice meal but Yegor never shows up.

2. What is Nikolai the porter's proficiency?
(a) University news.
(b) The latest in medicine.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Philosophy.

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

4. What kind of reputation is Pavel Ivanych proud of?
(a) Being insufferable.
(b) Being a womanizer.
(c) Being a philosopher.
(d) Being an honest man.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Grigoriev steal a nut?

2. What does the judge discover about an accident from the previous year?

3. What consolation does Yegor give to Pelageya when he leaves her?

4. In "The Fidget", Osip Dymov is __________.

5. In whom does Ieronym see his friend Nikolai?

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