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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What races through the bishop's head when his colleagues confirm his mother's appearance?

2. Why does Vladimir leave Olga?

3. What does Anna Sergeevna fear when she starts relations with Gurov?

4. A beadle's life can be described as __________.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In "The Bishop", what is Bishops Pyotr's relationship with his mother Marya like when she visits him after nine years?

2. How does the figurative language that describes Aksinya at the wedding reception show her true character?

3. According to Ivan Ivanych, what is the balance of sadness and happiness in the world?

4. What is going through Anisim's head as he is getting married? What might this foreshadow in his life?

5. In "At Christmastime", what kind of family life does Vasilisa's daughter have in Petersburg? How does this affect her relationship with her parents?

6. How does Korolev show judgment on the Lialikovs?

7. In "At Christmastime", Vasilisa writes a letter to her daughter after four years of not seeing her. Why does Vasilisa take such care in her choice of words?

8. How are the homes of Lida and the artist, from "The House with the Mezzanine", symbolic of their respective personalities?

9. Dr. Starchenko from "On Official Business" mentions old folks disliking this "nervous age." What might this "nervous age" refer to?

10. What helps Olga keep her youth and what ages her so much?

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