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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Dmitri Gurov look to meet Anna in S.?
(a) At the museums.
(b) Opening night at the theater.
(c) By the pier.
(d) Outside her bedroom window.

2. In regard to marriage, what is the village custom?
(a) To marry only when there is a dowry.
(b) To marry only when in love.
(c) For the son to marry to get a helper in the house.
(d) There is no need unless one wants to.

3. 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.

4. How is Korolev convinced to stay overnight to watch over Liza?
(a) Christina demands him to.
(b) Liza coquettishly requests.
(c) Liza's mother pays him extra rubles.
(d) By Liza's mother's pitiful appeal.

5. What does Starchenko assume about the Zemstvo?
(a) He is an egoist.
(b) He is murdered.
(c) He stole in life and this causes him to commit suicide.
(d) He is a respectable man.

6. How are Ivan Ivanych and his brother Nikolai different?
(a) Nikolai loves the town while Ivan prefers the country.
(b) Ivan is a townsman while Nikolai is a country man.
(c) Ivan values spirituality more than Nikolai.
(d) Ivan is frugal while Nikolai likes to spend his money.

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

8. How is Varvara Nikolaevna different from all the others in Grigory's home?
(a) She gives away alms.
(b) She comes from a poor family.
(c) She is deceitful.
(d) She is beautiful.

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

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

11. Who helps Olga pass time when Pustovalov is away on business?
(a) Her cook.
(b) Her gardener.
(c) The old woman who set her up with Pustovalov.
(d) The man who rents the wing.

12. What does Katya ask of Bishop Pyotr?
(a) To help Marya.
(b) To give a special sermon.
(c) To hold her.
(d) To help her family.

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

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

15. Why do Ivan Ivanych and Burkin call on Alekhin in "Gooseberries"?
(a) To get cover from rain.
(b) To ask for income.
(c) For his stories.
(d) To see his maid Pelageya.

Short Answer Questions

1. What same sound does Lyzhin hear at the Zemstvo cottage and von Taunitz's?

2. In "The Lady with the Little Dog", how does Gurov treat women?

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

4. What does Korolev assume about factory workers?

5. Who is more likely to tip the beadle?

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