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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What epiphany does Lyzhin realize while at von Taunitz's?
(a) The provincial life is not as bad as he assumed.
(b) Life is full of random accidents.
(c) Life's events are not accidents.
(d) Life in Moscow has nothing to do with provincial life.

2. How does the coroner end up at von Taunitz's?
(a) The beadle makes connections for him.
(b) Von Taunitz condemns Starchenko for not inviting him.
(c) The von Taunitzs are old friends of his.
(d) The coroner wanders to the first warm house he sees.

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

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

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

6. Whose idea is it to give Grigory's land to Nikifor in a will?
(a) Varvara's.
(b) Lipa's.
(c) Anisim's.
(d) Grigory's.

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

8. What does Korolev assume about factory workers?
(a) They are drunkards and ignorant.
(b) They are lucky to have a job.
(c) They are honest hard workers.
(d) They are there because of karma.

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

10. What happens to Grigory in old age?
(a) He becomes burdened with guilt and stops cheating his customers.
(b) He forgets to eat and is forgotten.
(c) He remains the man of the house and gives orders from bed.
(d) He moves to Siberia to be closer to Anisim.

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

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

13. Who does Sasha believe Olga is?
(a) His mother.
(b) His auntie.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) His nanny.

14. How does the bishop feel when he sees his mother?
(a) Shocked.
(b) Angry.
(c) Tearfully happy.
(d) Sad.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Starchenko assume about the Zemstvo?

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

3. In "The Darling", why does Kukin hate the rain so much?

4. How long has it been since Bishop Pyotr last saw his mother?

5. What causes the beadle to be so poor?

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