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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Fiancée.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Varvara Nikolaevna different from all the others in Grigory's home?
(a) She comes from a poor family.
(b) She gives away alms.
(c) She is deceitful.
(d) She is beautiful.

2. What is on Varvara's mind when Anisim unexpectedly returns home?
(a) He should find a new job.
(b) He is such a handsome fellow.
(c) He should get married.
(d) She wishes Aksinya married him instead.

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

4. What does the judge discover about an accident from the previous year?
(a) The derailment is caused by the village people taking the nuts.
(b) The wrong man is in jail for last year's accident.
(c) Grigoriev is the one behind it all.
(d) Mitrofan Petrov is the leader of the nut stealers and caused the accident.

5. How does Korolev's arrival and departure from the factory differ?
(a) He is not eager to arrive but when he leaves he knows he will happily return.
(b) He was excited to see the countryside but departs it feeling bored.
(c) He is more peeved and angry when he leaves.
(d) He leaves more hopeful than when he arrives.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How are Ivan Ivanych and his brother Nikolai different?

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

4. Whom does Marya bring with her to visit Bishop Pyotr?

5. What is the total number of time Cherviakov attempts to apologize to the General?

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