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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Anya do for her family when she gains access to money?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Provide adequate amounts of food.
(c) Support her brothers to attend university.
(d) Buy her brothers new clothes.

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

3. Why do Ivan Ivanych and Burkin call on Alekhin in "Gooseberries"?
(a) For his stories.
(b) To ask for income.
(c) To see his maid Pelageya.
(d) To get cover from rain.

4. What is Olga Ivanovna's greatest talent?
(a) Singing.
(b) Acquainting with celebrities.
(c) Acting.
(d) Painting.

5. What do Nevyrazimov and Paramon hear through the vents?
(a) Church bells and carriages.
(b) Children playing.
(c) Voices.
(d) A carriage crash.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Varka see in her dreams?

2. What is the one thing Olga Semyonovna from "The Darling" cannot live without?

3. What does Yegor Semyonych in "The Black Monk" believe is the key to his orchard's success?

4. What do Kovalenko and Varenka do that appalls Belikov?

5. How does Olga help Vladimir when he returns to her?

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