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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Boring Story.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. To whom is Nevyrazimov writing a letter?
(a) His boss.
(b) His parents.
(c) His children.
(d) His wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. The condition of Stepan and Anyuta's room can be described as __________.

2. What insulting word does Andreich call his daughter Maria?

3. What does Yegor dislike about the village?

4. What is it about Mr. Gnekker that worries Nikolai Stepanych?

5. What causes Anyuta to cry?

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