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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 is the name of the town in this story?
(a) Dikanka.
(b) Oksana.
(c) Valuka.
(d) Perma.

2. What do Ukrainians call the Chief of the Gnomes?
(a) Cossacks.
(b) Tiz.
(c) Viy.
(d) Pukkas.

3. Where does the devil hide when men come to visit Solokha?
(a) Under a bed.
(b) In a sack.
(c) Behind the curtain.
(d) In the basement.

4. What is a cossack?
(a) A member of the military.
(b) A eunuch.
(c) A communist member.
(d) A politicial.

5. Which word best describes Ivan's aunt's personality?
(a) Timid.
(b) Good humored.
(c) Dominant.
(d) Depressive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What runs out of the farmhouse to meet Peter and Basavriuk?

2. Which member of Ivan's family dies?

3. Who does most of the old couple's work on the farm?

4. What is said that Peter's parents died from?

5. Where does Danilo imprison Katerina's father?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ivas save Pyotr from a beating?

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

3. What happens to the characters at the end of the story?

4. Describe Ivan's time in the regiment?

5. How does Katerina die in this story?

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

7. What is remarkable about Afanasy's house?

8. How does this story end?

9. How do the devil and the witch leave Dikanta in pitch darkness?

10. Why has the devil cast darkness over Dikanka?

(see the answer keys)

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