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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Stories 14 through 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What embitters Nikolai Stepanych about his children?
(a) Their choice of careers.
(b) They do not help him during his financial troubles.
(c) They continue to ask him for money.
(d) The choice of spouses.

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

4. Why does Grigoriev steal a nut?
(a) To use as a sinker.
(b) For fun.
(c) To see if he could.
(d) He was dared to by a friend.

5. What does Vanka remember about Christmastime?
(a) Getting the tree with his grandfather.
(b) Decorating the tree with his parents.
(c) An orange in his stocking one year.
(d) Making cookies with the cooks in the master's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yegor dislike about the village?

2. In "In Exile", what does the Explainer advise the Tartar?

3. What happens when the General is so angry with Cherviakov, he yells "Get out"?

4. What does Kovrin seem to hate the most?

5. Whom does Varka see in her dreams?

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