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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Fiancée.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the judge discover about an accident from the previous year?
(a) Mitrofan Petrov is the leader of the nut stealers and caused the accident.
(b) Grigoriev is the one behind it all.
(c) The derailment is caused by the village people taking the nuts.
(d) The wrong man is in jail for last year's accident.

3. When Olga is alone, what thoughts does she have?
(a) She becomes passionate about cooking.
(b) Nothing.
(c) She becomes passionate about her garden.
(d) Her passions return to theater.

4. How is Lipa last seen?
(a) Impoverished and depressed.
(b) Fearful of the Tsybukins.
(c) Married happily with another peasant.
(d) Happy as a day laborer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the people's reaction to the Zemstvo killing?

2. What is Yefimya's relationship with her husband like?

3. In "A Medical Case", what is Korolev's impression of the countryside?

4. What is so different about Anna from the other women Gurov usually meets?

5. What allows Nadya to sleep soundly after so many nights of sleeplessness?

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