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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Ivan Cherviakov watching when he sneezes on the man in front of him?
(a) A play.
(b) An opera.
(c) A circus show.
(d) A symphony.

2. What is the total number of time Cherviakov attempts to apologize to the General?
(a) Three.
(b) Once.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Five.

3. What does the judge think of Grigoriev?
(a) He thinks highly of the man but not his actions.
(b) He feels pity for the poor fellow.
(c) He believes Grigoriev is a liar.
(d) He thinks Grigoriev is mentally unstable.

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

5. What causes Pavel Ivanych in "Gusev" to be more irritable than usual?
(a) When the air becomes too humid.
(b) When the card players get too rowdy.
(c) When the ship tosses.
(d) When there is not enough to drink.

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

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

8. Why is Varka happy to fetch the firewood?
(a) Activity makes her less sleepy.
(b) She wants to be outside.
(c) She is cold.
(d) It gets her away from the mistress of the house.

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

10. The mood during the night Ivan Velikopolsky visits the widows in "The Student" is __________.
(a) Heavy.
(b) Light.
(c) Merry.
(d) Eerie.

11. In "In Exile", what does the Explainer advise the Tartar?
(a) To want nothing.
(b) To sleep by the fire or he'll freeze.
(c) To make friends quick.
(d) To stay by him for protection.

12. What special gift did Nikolai have as a monk?
(a) Have a good rapport with everyone.
(b) Writing sermons.
(c) Writing akathists.
(d) Keeping the novices quiet and respectful.

13. What bond do Bronze and Rothschild have?
(a) They both play the fiddle very well.
(b) They both lose their wives at the same time.
(c) They both feel contempt for Moisei Ilyich.
(d) They cry together as Bronze plays his last song.

14. What is Dr. Yefimych's true passion?
(a) Horticulture.
(b) Anatomy and physiology.
(c) Literature.
(d) Theology.

15. What is Grigoriev's punishment?
(a) Convincing his village to stop taking nuts from the rail lines.
(b) Putting new nuts on the rail lines.
(c) A term of hard labor.
(d) A year of imprisonment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What feeling does Gusev have before he dies?

2. When the narrator arrives to the other side of the river, the place can be described as __________.

3. Dr. Yefimych lacks what as a doctor?

4. Why does Grigoriev steal a nut?

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

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