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

2. What arrangement do Gurov and Anna make to continue seeing each other?
(a) She will see him in Moscow.
(b) He is to come every other month by the pier.
(c) They are to meet in Yalta every Sunday.
(d) He is to "tutor" her in French.

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

4. How does Nikifor die?
(a) The cook accidentally drops boiling water on him.
(b) Aksinya pours boiling water on him.
(c) Aksinya throws him down the well.
(d) Stepan accidentally drops him.

5. Whose idea is it to give Grigory's land to Nikifor in a will?
(a) Lipa's.
(b) Anisim's.
(c) Grigory's.
(d) Varvara's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Zhenya discontinue seeing the artist?

2. What is the banging that Korolev keeps hearing?

3. How does Nikolai Ivanych get his dream estate?

4. How long has it been since Bishop Pyotr last saw his mother?

5. Where do Dmitri Gurov and the lady with the dog first meet?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Korolev show judgment on the Lialikovs?

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

3. In "The Lady with the Little Dog", how does Dmitri Dmitrich Gurov view women?

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

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

6. 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?

7. In "On Official Business", what is the difference between the coroner and the doctor in the way they view life?

8. In "On Official Business", the coroner has a dream about the beadle and the Zemstvo walking side by side. Write a brief interpretation of this dream.

9. How does Katya show how she feels about Pyotr's status as a bishop?

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

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