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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. Who lives downstairs from Masha and Martin Martinych?
(a) The Vashenkos.
(b) The Obertyshevs.
(c) The Oserovnayevs.
(d) The Vasilyevs.

2. What does the house-chairman in "The Cave" jokingly say he prefers when asked if he would like some tea?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Champagne.
(c) Irish cream.
(d) Bordeaux.

3. Which composer's Opus 74 lies on Martin's desk?
(a) Tchaikovsky.
(b) Rimsky-Korsakov.
(c) Scriabin.
(d) Shostakovich.

4. What is the god of the cave-like bedroom where Martin Martinych and Masha stay?
(a) A cast-iron stove.
(b) The bed.
(c) A chest of jewels.
(d) A telephone.

5. In "The Death of Dolgushov", who has reached the woods and posted their machine guns nearby?
(a) The Serbs.
(b) The Croatians.
(c) The Poles.
(d) The Czechs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Grishchuk have with him all the time?

2. Who is charged with watching over Paka?

3. Martin Martinych's face is as if it is made of clay, like many faces, back to whom?

4. In the morning, what is Varka asked to do after she lights the stove?

5. What are nurses doing as they lie in the grass in "The Death of Dolgushov"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the peasant women treat the lieutenant at the market in "Sunstroke"?

2. What is Masha's condition in "The Cave"?

3. What happens to the narrator and Grishchuk as evening falls in "The Death of Dolgushov"?

4. What happens when Varka decides she must be free of what shackles her at the end of Sleepy?

5. In "In Bondage", what happens during the dinner party of Paka's mother and afterward?

6. What does Paka believe about the boys he sees passing by his house?

7. What does Grishchuk say about women and why?

8. In "The Death of Dolgushov", what does a wounded delegate say when Vytyagaichenko is leaving him and the other wounded and how does Vytyagaichenko respond?

9. What do the three brothers do during the summer months in "In Bondage"?

10. How does Zamyatin describe the bedroom where Martin Martinych and Masha stay in "The Cave"?

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