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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lyzhin do for the beadle when he sees him at von Taunitz's?
(a) He gives him a kopeck.
(b) Nothing.
(c) He offers him a glass of vodka.
(d) He offers him a ride back to the village.

2. In "At Christmastime", whom does Vasilisa ask to help her write a letter to her daughter?
(a) Yegor.
(b) Her husband.
(c) The tavern keeper.
(d) The cook.

3. What does Anna Sergeevna fear when she starts relations with Gurov?
(a) That she will be judged a sinner.
(b) He will no longer respect her.
(c) The town will talk about her.
(d) Her husband will find out.

4. How is Anisim caught with counterfeit?
(a) The merrymakers try to bribe him and turns him in.
(b) Grigory notices it and turns him in.
(c) Aksinya realizes it and turns him in.
(d) The blacksmith traces it back to him.

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

6. What do Yegor and Vasilisa's son-in-law have in common?
(a) They came from Petersburg.
(b) They are both doorkeepers.
(c) They are both revolutionists.
(d) They were both soldiers.

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

8. What is so different about Anna from the other women Gurov usually meets?
(a) Anna is young and inexperienced.
(b) Anna is plainer looking.
(c) Anna is from the countryside.
(d) Anna is older than usual.

9. In, "In the Ravine", what is the village Ukleyevo known for?
(a) The woman who burned the baby.
(b) The good water.
(c) The vodka.
(d) The man who ate all the caviar at a memorial.

10. Whom does the factory benefit the most?
(a) Consumers.
(b) Christina Dmitrievna.
(c) Liza.
(d) The factory workers.

11. Whom does Marya talk with easily?
(a) Pyotr.
(b) Sisoy.
(c) Her eldest son.
(d) Her youngest daughter.

12. What does Liza want Korolev to confirm?
(a) That she is not ill but sick of the factory.
(b) That she can be a beautiful young woman.
(c) That her heart will get better and she will live healthily.
(d) That things will change in their lifetime.

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

14. How does Nikifor die?
(a) Aksinya pours boiling water on him.
(b) Aksinya throws him down the well.
(c) Stepan accidentally drops him.
(d) The cook accidentally drops boiling water on him.

15. Whom does Grigory Petrovich generally have a softness for?
(a) His eldest son and daughter-in-law Aksinya.
(b) Varvara.
(c) His deaf son.
(d) His late wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Olga support the ones she loves?

2. Why does Vasilisa have trouble writing a letter to her daughter?

3. In "A Medical Case", what is Korolev's impression of the countryside?

4. What does Anisim say that astonishes Varvara, his mother?

5. In "The Bishop", what day does Bishop Pyotr unexpectedly sees his mother?

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