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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Stories 7 through 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the judge discover about an accident from the previous year?
(a) The derailment is caused by the village people taking the nuts.
(b) The wrong man is in jail for last year's accident.
(c) Grigoriev is the one behind it all.
(d) Mitrofan Petrov is the leader of the nut stealers and caused the accident.

2. What is Grigoriev's punishment?
(a) Convincing his village to stop taking nuts from the rail lines.
(b) A year of imprisonment.
(c) A term of hard labor.
(d) Putting new nuts on the rail lines.

3. What is a panikhida?
(a) A commemorative prayer for the dead.
(b) A formal apology to God.
(c) A type of bread.
(d) A celebration of the living.

4. What is the total number of time Cherviakov attempts to apologize to the General?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Once.

5. The condition of Stepan and Anyuta's room can be described as __________.
(a) Sparse.
(b) Averagely boring.
(c) Messy.
(d) Meticulously clean.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Nevyrazimov feel better?

2. In whom does Ieronym see his friend Nikolai?

3. What must Anyuta finish in order to get more tea and tobacco?

4. Why does Grigoriev steal a nut?

5. What does Varka do finally to get some sleep?

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