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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 Marya say that Solovey loved to eat?
(a) Hay.
(b) Sugar cubes.
(c) Carrots.
(d) Porridge.

2. In Chapter 2, as the women barricade themselves inside the gates, who speaks of death?
(a) Nurse.
(b) Domovoi.
(c) Varvara.
(d) Vasya.

3. What leads Vasya to the lake in Chapter 9?
(a) Bolotnik.
(b) Midnight.
(c) Fireflies.
(d) Horse.

4. In Chapter 2, what does Olga see outside the window?
(a) Men with torches.
(b) The Grand Prince and his men.
(c) A mob.
(d) Men on horseback.

5. What saved the city in Chapter 1?
(a) Snowstorm.
(b) Rain.
(c) Hail storm.
(d) Bucket brigade.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Vasya find shelter at the end of Chapter 9?

2. In Chapter 5, when does the Bear want Konstantin to go and do what he tells him?

3. At the end of Chapter 7, where does the Bear kiss Konstantin?

4. In Chapter 3, what does the man look like that Vasya sees standing above her when the death-god disappears?

5. Who does Varvara take Vasya to in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Vasya feel at the beginning of Chapter 12?

2. In Chapter 7, how does the Bear tell Konstantin to leave the scene where Konstantin vanquishes a vampire?

3. In Chapter 9, what does the hut look like that Vasya sees?

4. What does Vasya see when she enters Olga's workroom in Chapter 2?

5. In Chapter 11, why does Ded Grib decide to folllow Vasya?

6. What happens to a peasant couple in Chapter 7?

7. In Chapter 10, where does the domovaya send Vasya, and what warnings does she give?

8. In Chapter 3, why does Konstantin say there was a fire in the city?

9. Why does the monk tell Dmitrii that he cannot leave Moscow in Chapter 1?

10. In Chapter 2, when Olga, Vasya, and the others are surrounded, why do they not send for guards?

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