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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through In the Ravine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Anisim caught with counterfeit?
(a) The blacksmith traces it back to him.
(b) Aksinya realizes it and turns him in.
(c) Grigory notices it and turns him in.
(d) The merrymakers try to bribe him and turns him in.

2. What feeling does Gusev have before he dies?
(a) A sense of happiness.
(b) A sense of yearning.
(c) A feeling of content.
(d) An aura of uneasiness.

3. How are Ivan Ivanych and his brother Nikolai different?
(a) Ivan is a townsman while Nikolai is a country man.
(b) Ivan is frugal while Nikolai likes to spend his money.
(c) Ivan values spirituality more than Nikolai.
(d) Nikolai loves the town while Ivan prefers the country.

4. How does the coroner witness the disrespect the beadle gets?
(a) The driver runs the beadle into the snow.
(b) The witnesses laugh at the beadle when he tries to call them over.
(c) The coroner sees the people shoo him away when heading to the von Taunitz.
(d) Dr. Starchenko speaks to him contemptously.

5. According to the artist in "The House with the Mezzanine", what is the only thing worth living for?
(a) Love.
(b) Spiritual activity.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Ieronym and the passenger see so beautiful in the sky as they cross the river?

2. What is so different about Anna from the other women Gurov usually meets?

3. Why haven't Vasilisa and her husband received any word from Yefimya?

4. Whom does the factory benefit the most?

5. In "Ward No. 6", who is Nikita?

(see the answer key)

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