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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What causes the beadle to be so poor?
(a) His alcoholic sons.
(b) He was born poor and never had a chance at education.
(c) His addiction with gambling.
(d) His alcoholism.

3. What do Kovalenko and Varenka do that appalls Belikov?
(a) Wear sandals in the rain.
(b) Dance in the street.
(c) Ride bicycles.
(d) Sing in the classroom.

4. What is the one thing Olga Semyonovna from "The Darling" cannot live without?
(a) Children.
(b) Money.
(c) Church.
(d) Loving someone.

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

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

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

8. 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.

9. Why do the wedding dressmakers cry?
(a) Grigory pays them in sardines and candles instead of cash.
(b) Varvara and Aksinya yell at them for their work.
(c) Grigory pays them in counterfeit.
(d) Anisim ruins the dresses during a drunken fit.

10. Why does Vladimir leave Olga?
(a) He finds another woman.
(b) She is too overbearing and suffocating.
(c) He is fired from work and must find another post.
(d) His regiment leaves town.

11. 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 feels it is useless.
(d) He can see himself doing this forever.

12. In "The Bishop", what day does Bishop Pyotr unexpectedly sees his mother?
(a) The Eve of Palm Sunday.
(b) Easter night.
(c) The first day of Lent.
(d) Christmas Eve.

13. Why do the women in town get excited about Belikov's life?
(a) They want to arrange a marriage for him.
(b) Belikov is promoted to a privy councilor.
(c) Belikov inherits a fortune.
(d) One of the daughters falls in love with Belikov.

14. How long has it been since Bishop Pyotr last saw his mother?
(a) Three years.
(b) Nine months.
(c) Fifteen years.
(d) Nine years.

15. Why does Zhenya discontinue seeing the artist?
(a) The artist moves away.
(b) Lida disapproves.
(c) Zhenya is too busy with politics.
(d) Her mother disapproves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bishop Pyotr die of?

2. How is Lipa last seen?

3. What does Lyzhin do for the beadle when he sees him at von Taunitz's?

4. What does Katya ask of Bishop Pyotr?

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

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