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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. What feeling overtakes Kovrin to the point that it worries him?
(a) Anger.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Emptiness.
(d) Sadness.

2. What does Kovrin seem to hate the most?
(a) Being different.
(b) A state of mediocrity.
(c) His inability to love fairly.
(d) The hallucinations.

3. In whom does Ieronym see his friend Nikolai?
(a) A woman on the ferry.
(b) The narrator.
(c) The archimandrite.
(d) A merchant.

4. What causes Anyuta to cry?
(a) Stepan yells at her for being stupid.
(b) The neighbor treats her badly.
(c) Anyuta wants to move out.
(d) Stepan wants to separate.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the black monk tell Kovrin about his presence?

2. According to Stepanych, what does Pyotr lack to set the world on fire?

3. Why does Grigoriev steal a nut?

4. What is Ivan Cherviakov watching when he sneezes on the man in front of him?

5. When the narrator arrives to the other side of the river, the place can be described as __________.

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