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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Katya's reaction to Pyotr's title as bishop?
(a) She is unaware of its importance.
(b) She reveres him.
(c) She mocks him.
(d) She becomes afraid.

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

3. 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.

4. What does Anisim say that astonishes Varvara, his mother?
(a) That he does not want to marry.
(b) That he does not believe in God.
(c) That he is in love with Aksinya.
(d) That she will go to hell.

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

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

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

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

9. How does Korolev's arrival and departure from the factory differ?
(a) He is more peeved and angry when he leaves.
(b) He leaves more hopeful than when he arrives.
(c) He was excited to see the countryside but departs it feeling bored.
(d) He is not eager to arrive but when he leaves he knows he will happily return.

10. What is Belikov and Kovalenko's relationship like?
(a) They each think the other is brutish.
(b) Belikov dislikes Kovalenko.
(c) They have mutual respect for one another.
(d) Kovalenko dislikes Belikov.

11. Why haven't Vasilisa and her husband received any word from Yefimya?
(a) Andrei forbids her to contact her parents.
(b) Yefimya is too busy to write.
(c) Andrei did not mail Yefimya's letters.
(d) Yefimya is too ill to write.

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

13. How does Nikolai Ivanych get his dream estate?
(a) Inheritance.
(b) He surreptitiously steals from his workplace a little at a time over years.
(c) By borrowing from Ivan Ivanych.
(d) Through savings and marrying a widow.

14. How does the coroner witness the disrespect the beadle gets?
(a) The coroner sees the people shoo him away when heading to the von Taunitz.
(b) Dr. Starchenko speaks to him contemptously.
(c) The driver runs the beadle into the snow.
(d) The witnesses laugh at the beadle when he tries to call them over.

15. In "The Lady with the Little Dog", how does Gurov treat women?
(a) As equals.
(b) With utmost respect.
(c) He tries not to be around them.
(d) Selfishly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of the following, which is NOT an attribute Korolev thinks about in regards to factories?

2. What brings Anna back home to her husband?

3. How does the coroner end up at von Taunitz's?

4. What is it like for Bishop Pyotr when he serves abroad?

5. How does the bishop feel when he sees his mother?

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