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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Dr. Yefimych's true passion?
(a) Literature.
(b) Horticulture.
(c) Theology.
(d) Anatomy and physiology.

2. What does Stepanych think of Katya?
(a) She is too brash for men.
(b) She is innocent and naive.
(c) She is too timid to be in theater.
(d) She is too foolish to make it in this world.

3. Why is Varka happy to fetch the firewood?
(a) She is cold.
(b) It gets her away from the mistress of the house.
(c) She wants to be outside.
(d) Activity makes her less sleepy.

4. What is Nikolai the porter's proficiency?
(a) The latest in medicine.
(b) University news.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Philosophy.

5. What does it take for Olga to get over Ryabovsky?
(a) Ryabovsky is denied an art show.
(b) Seeing Ryabovsky with another woman.
(c) Olga gets to know him and is bored.
(d) Osip becomes famous.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the ordinary conversation between Mikhail and Katya?

2. What does Varka do finally to get some sleep?

3. What empowers Anya in her marriage?

4. What do Stepanych and his wife discuss every morning?

5. What is Ivan Cherviakov watching when he sneezes on the man in front of him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What consumes Bronze so much in life over the last 50 years in "Rothschild's Fiddle"?

2. What does the Tartar think of Vassily and the Explainer? Who does he respect more and why?

3. Why doesn't Grigoriev believe the magistrate when he says taking nuts will derail the train?

4. Describe Maria's upbringing under Andreich. What is Andreich's role in her life?

5. What does Ivan Velikopolsky in "The Student" see in the present that reminds him of the past? How does he connect the two?

6. What makes akathists so difficult?

7. What is Katya's response to Nikolai when he writes a letter not to condemn the actors but the art of acting? What does this show about her character?

8. Why does the black monk make Andrei Kovrin feel good?

9. What changes are observed in Nikolai Stepanych's lectures from the past to the present?

10. What happens to officials who deal with people's suffering, such as judges, policemen, and doctors? How does this affect the innocent?

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