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

2. What does Yegor dislike about the village?
(a) The poverty.
(b) The noise.
(c) The arrogance.
(d) The large population.

3. How does Vanka learn how to read and write?
(a) From his old miss Olga.
(b) By the master's wife.
(c) In secret from his grandfather.
(d) From another apprentice.

4. What does it take for Olga to get over Ryabovsky?
(a) Osip becomes famous.
(b) Seeing Ryabovsky with another woman.
(c) Ryabovsky is denied an art show.
(d) Olga gets to know him and is bored.

5. What does the judge think of Grigoriev?
(a) He thinks Grigoriev is mentally unstable.
(b) He thinks highly of the man but not his actions.
(c) He believes Grigoriev is a liar.
(d) He feels pity for the poor fellow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Varka see in her dreams?

2. What is a panikhida?

3. What is General Brizzhalov's first reaction to Cherviakov?

4. To whom does Stepanych compare himself during his youthful days of lecturing?

5. What feeling overtakes Kovrin to the point that it worries him?

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