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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 brings Anna back home to her husband?
(a) Gurov disrespects her and she runs to her husband for assurance.
(b) Anna's husband is ill.
(c) Anna feels guilty for her actions and wants to seek forgiveness.
(d) Her husband suspects her affair and demands that she return immediately.

2. What does Bishop Pyotr die of?
(a) Typhoid fever.
(b) Yellow fever.
(c) Consumption.
(d) Pneumonia.

3. How does Olga support the ones she loves?
(a) She provides them with money.
(b) She gives them encouraging words.
(c) She commits to whatever they commit to.
(d) She stays out of their way.

4. 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.

5. How does the bishop feel when he sees his mother?
(a) Sad.
(b) Angry.
(c) Shocked.
(d) Tearfully happy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Nikifor die?

2. Whom does Marya talk with easily?

3. How is Korolev convinced to stay overnight to watch over Liza?

4. What renews Olga's youth?

5. Who is the only person who can behave comfortably around Bishop Pyotr?

Short Essay Questions

1. Compare and contrast Olga's husbands and lovers. How are their personality types alike and different? How does this affect Olga as a person?

2. Why does Alekhin and Burkin not enjoy Ivan Ivanych's story about gooseberries?

3. Describe Belikov from "The Man in a Case" and what makes him so different from everyone else in his village. What influence does he have on the people around him?

4. 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?

5. What is life like for Pyotr?

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

7. In "On Official Business", why does the coroner believe the city is the center of Russia? What does he think of the village and countryside?

8. Describe what life is like in the countryside where there is a factory?

9. In "The Lady with the Little Dog", why does Dmitri Gurov see Anna Sergeeva differently than all the other women in his life? What makes her so much more appealing?

10. How does Korolev show judgment on the Lialikovs?

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