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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Stories 26 and 27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Olga and Pustovalov's marriage last before he dies of illness?
(a) Three years.
(b) Six months.
(c) Six years.
(d) Three months.

2. 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.

3. Why does Andreich believe it is acceptable to call Maria by an insulting name?
(a) Because he is her father.
(b) Because other people call her that all the time.
(c) Because God forgave her.
(d) Because she is a woman.

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

5. What causes the beadle to be so poor?
(a) His alcoholic sons.
(b) He was born poor and never had a chance at education.
(c) His addiction with gambling.
(d) His alcoholism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Vanka learn how to read and write?

2. How does Stepanych feel about his life in the months before his death?

3. What does it take for Olga to get over Ryabovsky?

4. To what does Korolev equate the factory?

5. Why does Grigoriev steal a nut?

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