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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Stories 14 through 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is constantly on Nikolai Stepanych's mind?
(a) Liza and Mr. Gnekker.
(b) How he needs smarter students.
(c) Dying.
(d) His lack of tenure at the university.

2. What feeling does Gusev have before he dies?
(a) A sense of happiness.
(b) An aura of uneasiness.
(c) A sense of yearning.
(d) A feeling of content.

3. What happens to Vassily Sergeich's family?
(a) The wife runs away and his daughter is ill.
(b) His children die of consumption.
(c) His wife dies of consumption and his daughter has severe pneumonia.
(d) They are left in Moscow while he is in exile in Siberia.

4. How does Stepanych feel about his life in the months before his death?
(a) Everything is happier.
(b) Everyone seems nicer.
(c) Nothing changes.
(d) Everything is boring.

5. Why is the Tartar exiled in Siberia?
(a) For stealing chickens.
(b) For stealing horses.
(c) For beating his father.
(d) He refuses to join the military.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Varka happy to fetch the firewood?

2. In "Peasant Woman", what does Dyudya enjoy about having visitors?

3. Why does Osip leave Olga?

4. What does the black monk tell Kovrin about his presence?

5. What is the total number of time Cherviakov attempts to apologize to the General?

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