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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 does Valuka say Oksana has to bring her before she marries him?
(a) Heaven's wings.
(b) Tsarina's shoes.
(c) Rasputin's sword.
(d) The devil's cloak.

2. What happens as Khoma prays at the witch's coffin?
(a) The witch disappears.
(b) The witch laughs.
(c) The witch grabs him.
(d) The witch rises to heaven.

3. How did the Cossack's daughter die?
(a) She killed herself.
(b) She was murdered.
(c) She had a stroke.
(d) She contracted consumption.

4. Who does most of the old couple's work on the farm?
(a) Elves.
(b) Polacks.
(c) Their children.
(d) Serfs.

5. What is said that Peter's parents died from?
(a) The measles.
(b) Godless souls.
(c) Heartbreak.
(d) The pest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Peter need as much as he needs last year's snow?

2. What plagues Katerina's father after he kills his daughter?

3. Who appears at the wedding but quickly disappears?

4. Who does Pidorka call Child of Gold?

5. What is the name of Oksana's father?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Pytor cope with his role in the murder of Ivas?

2. What is the curse that Petro had put upon him?

3. How does this story end?

4. How does Valuka gain possession of the devil's shoes?

5. What is remarkable about Afanasy's house?

6. What is the moral of the story?

7. Why has the devil cast darkness over Dikanka?

8. Why does Khoma have to say an eulogy for the cossack's daughter?

9. What deal does the devil make with Valuka?

10. How does Ivan appear to Petro at the end of the story?

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