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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 wife in this story?
(a) Afanasay.
(b) Nina.
(c) Natassha.
(d) Pulkeria.

2. Who does Ivan's aunt suggest he should marry?
(a) Grigory's sister.
(b) Her niece.
(c) A Polack.
(d) A Russian princess.

3. What does the devil steal?
(a) The sun.
(b) The moon.
(c) The star.
(d) The clouds.

4. Where does Gorobets bring Katerina and her baby for protection?
(a) Kiev.
(b) St. Petersburg.
(c) Perm.
(d) Moscow.

5. What nationality is the man that Pidorka is being forced to marry?
(a) Chinese.
(b) Georgian.
(c) Polish.
(d) Moldovan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Gorobets and his family celebrating in this story?

2. How does the cat change when it returns home?

3. Who does Danilo fight with when he arrives home?

4. What does the church elder like to drink?

5. What is Ivan's aunt's name?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the three students come upon the farmstead?

2. Why has the devil cast darkness over Dikanka?

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

4. How does Grigory react when Ivan asks him about signing over the deed?

5. What bad things do the villagers say the witch did when she was alive?

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

7. Summarize the Night Before Christmas story.

8. How does Katerina die in this story?

9. Why does Ivan have to retire from the regiment?

10. What is the moral of the story?

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