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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What part of the body does the middle-aged citizen who comes to visit the doctor in "Yuletide Story" complain about?
2. Where is Dolgushov injured?
3. How old is Nanny Varka?
4. What does the wife of Martin Martinych's downstairs neighbor hide under a napkin when he comes into their room?
5. What does the lieutenant drink when he gets back to the hotel in "Sunstroke"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Zoshchenko write about "Yuletide Story"?
2. What does Grishchuk say about women and why?
3. What does Paka believe about the boys he sees passing by his house?
4. What do the three brothers do during the summer months in "In Bondage"?
5. How does Zamyatin describe the bedroom where Martin Martinych and Masha stay in "The Cave"?
6. What does Antoshka say when Paka asks why he and his brother laugh all the time?
7. In "Yuletide Story," what does the doctor think when he goes to the patient's apartment after his aunt tells him he has died?
8. Why does Selikhov come over to Martin Martinych's place?
9. What happens when Varka decides she must be free of what shackles her at the end of Sleepy?
10. Describe the condition Dolgushov is in when he is found. Who has done this to him?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In "Yuletide Story", why does the narrator call the old woman "the flower of god"? What does she do that causes him to use sarcasm in his description of her?
Essay Topic 2
How is it that Varka becomes a nanny to the cobbler's baby? What has happened to her family? How is she treated by the cobbler and his wife?
Essay Topic 3
In "The Clothesmender", what is the reason that the tailor Laputin has a French sign calling him Lepoutant? What happens, ironically, to his benefactor of the same name at the end of the story? Why is this ironic?
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