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

2. In "On Official Business", where is the scene of death?
(a) The village hall.
(b) The clerk's office.
(c) The Zemstvo's barn.
(d) The Zemstvo cottage.

3. When the narrator arrives to the other side of the river, the place can be described as __________.
(a) Languid.
(b) Peaceful.
(c) Somber.
(d) Bustling.

4. What renews Olga's youth?
(a) Being Vladimir's lover again.
(b) Finding her own independent passions.
(c) Mothering Sasha.
(d) Participating in a women's club.

5. How is Korolev convinced to stay overnight to watch over Liza?
(a) Liza's mother pays him extra rubles.
(b) By Liza's mother's pitiful appeal.
(c) Christina demands him to.
(d) Liza coquettishly requests.

Short Answer Questions

1. What feeling does Gusev have before he dies?

2. What is the one thing Olga Semyonovna from "The Darling" cannot live without?

3. How does Yegor describe himself?

4. When does Korolev believe social change will occur?

5. How long does Olga and Pustovalov's marriage last before he dies of illness?

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