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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is most important to Lida Volchaninova?
(a) Providing for her mother and sister.
(b) Getting married.
(c) Having children.
(d) Local politics and helping the needy.

3. To what does Korolev equate the factory?
(a) A family.
(b) Exile.
(c) A prison.
(d) A church.

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

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

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

7. 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 becomes burdened with guilt and stops cheating his customers.
(d) He moves to Siberia to be closer to Anisim.

8. What feeling does Bishop Pyotr instill in people?
(a) Peace.
(b) Contentment.
(c) Fear.
(d) Happiness.

9. Why is Christina Dmitrievna in charge of meeting the doctor?
(a) She is Liza's mother.
(b) She is the most outspoken.
(c) She is assumed to be the most educated in the house.
(d) She is the only one who can speak Russian.

10. 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.

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

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

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

14. 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.

15. In "The Darling", why does Kukin hate the rain so much?
(a) He is unable to go hunting.
(b) It ruins his business.
(c) It stops him from being able to go for his daily walks.
(d) The grey clouds make him feel sad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the beadle to be so poor?

2. In "The House with the Mezzanine", the artist's lifestyle can be described as __________.

3. How is Lipa last seen?

4. How does Nikifor die?

5. According to the artist in "The House with the Mezzanine", what is the only thing worth living for?

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