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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the root of poverty in Anya's family?
(a) Her brother's irresponsible ways.
(b) Pyotr's alcoholism.
(c) Her mother's death.
(d) Her father's physical disability.

3. What expression does Marfa, Bronze's wife, have as she is dying?
(a) Pity and sorrow.
(b) Pain.
(c) Guilt.
(d) Serenity and joy.

4. Due to what does Dr. Yefimych believe he is a doctor and the patients in Ward No. 6 are hospitalized?
(a) Parentage.
(b) Karma.
(c) Chance.
(d) Social classes.

5. How does Anyuta help Stepan's studies?
(a) By testing him with note cards.
(b) By being his anatomical model.
(c) By researching any questions he has.
(d) By keeping his environment neat and clean.

6. What does the black monk tell Kovrin about his presence?
(a) He is real but only to those that believe.
(b) He is always present whether Kovrin sees him or not.
(c) He is there by Kovrin's imagination.
(d) He is as real to Kovrin as to everyone else in the gardens.

7. What is Olga Ivanovna's greatest talent?
(a) Acquainting with celebrities.
(b) Painting.
(c) Singing.
(d) Acting.

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

9. Why is business bad for Bronze in "Rothschild's Fiddle"?
(a) There is a recession.
(b) Everyone dies poor and wants cheap coffins.
(c) Not enough people are dying.
(d) Too many people are dying.

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

11. What is the ordinary conversation between Mikhail and Katya?
(a) The latest in medicine.
(b) Stepanych's health.
(c) Ill gossip about people.
(d) Praises for the theater.

12. In Velikopolsky's version of the Twelve Gospels, what does Peter do?
(a) Turn away from Jesus when he asks for help.
(b) Deny knowing Jesus.
(c) Turn Jesus into the high priest.
(d) Sing along with the servants of the high priest against Jesus.

13. What about Ryabovsky intrigues Olga?
(a) He is a genius in painting.
(b) He is absolutely giving.
(c) He adds drama to her life.
(d) She knows nothing about him and remains mysterious.

14. Whom does Varka see in her dreams?
(a) Melting candles.
(b) Singing lamps.
(c) Her late parents.
(d) Babies with wings.

15. What brought Gusev away to the Far East?
(a) A woman.
(b) Exile.
(c) There was promise of money as a merchant.
(d) Military service.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dr. Yefimych lacks what as a doctor?

2. What must Anyuta finish in order to get more tea and tobacco?

3. What does Vanka remember about Christmastime?

4. How does Yegor describe himself?

5. To whom is Nevyrazimov writing a letter?

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