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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Stories 17 through 19.

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) The wrong man is in jail for last year's accident.
(d) Grigoriev is the one behind it all.

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

3. Why does Osip leave Olga?
(a) He pursues an academic career in Germany.
(b) He dies from diphtheria.
(c) Osip leaves because Olga is too dramatic.
(d) He leaves her when she announces her love for Ryabovsky.

4. Why is the Tartar exiled in Siberia?
(a) For stealing horses.
(b) For stealing chickens.
(c) He refuses to join the military.
(d) For beating his father.

5. How does Yegor describe himself?
(a) A man of wisdom.
(b) Stoic.
(c) Humble.
(d) As a free spirit.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens at Pelageya's cottage on Easter?

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

4. What do Ieronym and the passenger see so beautiful in the sky as they cross the river?

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

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