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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Yegor Semyonych in "The Black Monk" believe is the key to his orchard's success?
(a) The people he hires.
(b) Russia's climate.
(c) His love for it.
(d) The support of his daughter.

2. What feeling overtakes Kovrin to the point that it worries him?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Emptiness.
(d) Anger.

3. What do Nevyrazimov and Paramon hear through the vents?
(a) A carriage crash.
(b) Church bells and carriages.
(c) Voices.
(d) Children playing.

4. What empowers Anya in her marriage?
(a) Her charm with the officials' wives.
(b) His Excellency's wife.
(c) Her charm with high officials.
(d) The remembrance of her late mother's strength.

5. What kind of reputation is Pavel Ivanych proud of?
(a) Being a philosopher.
(b) Being insufferable.
(c) Being an honest man.
(d) Being a womanizer.

6. How does Stepanych feel about his life in the months before his death?
(a) Everyone seems nicer.
(b) Everything is happier.
(c) Nothing changes.
(d) Everything is boring.

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

8. What does Stepanych think of Katya?
(a) She is too foolish to make it in this world.
(b) She is innocent and naive.
(c) She is too timid to be in theater.
(d) She is too brash for men.

9. What happens when the General is so angry with Cherviakov, he yells "Get out"?
(a) Cherviakov becomes angry and takes back all his apologies.
(b) Cherviakov attempts to write a letter of apology to the General.
(c) Cherviakov vents to his wife at home.
(d) Cherviakov goes home and dies.

10. 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.

11. What is Stepan studying?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Art.
(c) Russian literature.
(d) Mathematics.

12. What do Ieronym and the passenger see so beautiful in the sky as they cross the river?
(a) Wisps of clouds.
(b) Fireworks.
(c) A crescent moon.
(d) A full moon.

13. What is Nikolai the porter's proficiency?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) The latest in medicine.
(c) University news.
(d) Mathematics.

14. What is General Brizzhalov's first reaction to Cherviakov?
(a) He wants Cherviakov to let him be.
(b) He is furious with Cherviakov.
(c) He accepts the apology amiably with a smile.
(d) He is appalled but Cherviakov's rudeness.

15. What does Katya suggest to Stepanych?
(a) For him to sponsor her pursuits in theater.
(b) For him to leave his family.
(c) That he should get some open air at the Caucasus.
(d) To go see a dentist.

Short Answer Questions

1. The mood during the night Ivan Velikopolsky visits the widows in "The Student" is __________.

2. What consolation does Yegor give to Pelageya when he leaves her?

3. What expression does Marfa, Bronze's wife, have as she is dying?

4. How does Anyuta help Stepan's studies?

5. What does Varka do finally to get some sleep?

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