2. 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.

3. How is Lipa last seen?
(a) Married happily with another peasant.
(b) Fearful of the Tsybukins.
(c) Impoverished and depressed.
(d) Happy as a day laborer.

4. Why does Vasilisa have trouble writing a letter to her daughter?
(a) There is too much to say.
(b) Vasilisa has no news to write about.
(c) Vasilisa is angry with her daughter but does not want to show it.
(d) She is only doing it for her husband.

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

6. What is the banging that Korolev keeps hearing?
(a) The watchmen keeping time of the hour.
(b) The wind howling at the storage doors.
(c) The guards making sure the employees are awake and working.
(d) The idle employees killing time.

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

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

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

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

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

12. What is it like for Bishop Pyotr when he serves abroad?
(a) He is happy to see other parts of the world.
(b) He can see himself doing this forever.
(c) He feels it is useless.
(d) He is homesick.

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

14. What do Olga and Kukin believe the public prefers?
(a) Banality.
(b) Comedies.
(c) Cultural classics.
(d) Operas.

15. 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.