View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Vassily Sergeich's family?
(a) His children die of consumption.
(b) His wife dies of consumption and his daughter has severe pneumonia.
(c) They are left in Moscow while he is in exile in Siberia.
(d) The wife runs away and his daughter is ill.

2. What is the total number of time Cherviakov attempts to apologize to the General?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Five.
(c) Once.
(d) Three.

3. What does the judge think of Grigoriev?
(a) He thinks Grigoriev is mentally unstable.
(b) He thinks highly of the man but not his actions.
(c) He believes Grigoriev is a liar.
(d) He feels pity for the poor fellow.

4. How does Anyuta help Stepan's studies?
(a) By testing him with note cards.
(b) By researching any questions he has.
(c) By being his anatomical model.
(d) By keeping his environment neat and clean.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anya do for her family when she gains access to money?

2. What embitters Nikolai Stepanych about his children?

3. What empowers Anya in her marriage?

4. What causes Anyuta to cry?

5. What does the black monk tell Kovrin about his presence?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Katya leave to the Caucasus?

2. As Gusev drifts in and out of sleep, what thoughts interchange in his dreams?

3. Dr. Andrei Yefimych states that Ivan Dmitrich is "interested in precisely the right things." What are these right things?

4. Describe Yegor and Pelageya's relationship. How do they interact? How do they feel about one another?

5. How does real life affect Varka's sleep at night?

6. How does Ieronym invite the narrator of "Easter Night" to ask about Ieronym's sorrows? How does he hint at his current sorrow?

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

8. Describe Anya's character and how it changes from the beginning of "Anna on the Neck" to the end.

9. Compare Nikolai Stepanych's (A Boring Story) public name to the real person.

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,339 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample