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

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. Where do Dmitri Gurov and the lady with the dog first meet?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Smryna.
(c) Yalta.
(d) Petersburg.

3. What oppressive feeling does Korolev feel as he walks around the factory buildings?
(a) Christina is the most educated in all of the house despite her ignorance.
(b) Liza's mother depending on him.
(c) The devil is watching.
(d) The factory will fail and the family will fall with it.

4. How does Olga help Vladimir when he returns to her?
(a) She lets his family stay in the wing without pay.
(b) She gives him the house.
(c) She gives him money.
(d) She helps him find a post.

5. When does Korolev believe social change will occur?
(a) In the next generations.
(b) He is skeptical things will ever change in Russia.
(c) Later in his lifetime.
(d) Not for another hundred years.

6. What brings Anna back home to her husband?
(a) Anna feels guilty for her actions and wants to seek forgiveness.
(b) Gurov disrespects her and she runs to her husband for assurance.
(c) Her husband suspects her affair and demands that she return immediately.
(d) Anna's husband is ill.

7. What is it like for Bishop Pyotr when he serves abroad?
(a) He is homesick.
(b) He is happy to see other parts of the world.
(c) He can see himself doing this forever.
(d) He feels it is useless.

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

9. What does Bishop Pyotr die of?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Consumption.
(c) Yellow fever.
(d) Typhoid fever.

10. What is Yefimya's relationship with her husband like?
(a) It is very formal and arranged.
(b) She loves him dearly.
(c) She fears him.
(d) He loves her more than she can return.

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

12. How soon does Olga remarry when Kukin dies?
(a) Three days.
(b) Three months.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) Three years.

13. How long does Olga and Pustovalov's marriage last before he dies of illness?
(a) Six months.
(b) Six years.
(c) Three months.
(d) Three years.

14. A beadle's life can be described as __________.
(a) Difficult.
(b) Easy.
(c) Exciting.
(d) Highly respectable.

15. In "The House with the Mezzanine", the artist's lifestyle can be described as __________.
(a) Idle.
(b) Busy.
(c) Productive.
(d) Caring.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the beadle to be so poor?

2. Who is the only person who can behave comfortably around Bishop Pyotr?

3. What is so different about Anna from the other women Gurov usually meets?

4. Why is Christina Dmitrievna in charge of meeting the doctor?

5. Whose idea is it to give Grigory's land to Nikifor in a will?

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