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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a panikhida?
(a) A commemorative prayer for the dead.
(b) A formal apology to God.
(c) A celebration of the living.
(d) A type of bread.

2. What causes Anyuta to cry?
(a) The neighbor treats her badly.
(b) Anyuta wants to move out.
(c) Stepan wants to separate.
(d) Stepan yells at her for being stupid.

3. What do Ieronym and the passenger see so beautiful in the sky as they cross the river?
(a) A crescent moon.
(b) A full moon.
(c) Wisps of clouds.
(d) Fireworks.

4. What embitters Nikolai Stepanych about his children?
(a) They do not help him during his financial troubles.
(b) They continue to ask him for money.
(c) The choice of spouses.
(d) Their choice of careers.

5. What bond do Bronze and Rothschild have?
(a) They both play the fiddle very well.
(b) They both feel contempt for Moisei Ilyich.
(c) They both lose their wives at the same time.
(d) They cry together as Bronze plays his last song.

6. Dr. Yefimych lacks what as a doctor?
(a) Clinical background.
(b) Money.
(c) Management skills.
(d) Intelligence.

7. Why is Varka happy to fetch the firewood?
(a) She is cold.
(b) It gets her away from the mistress of the house.
(c) Activity makes her less sleepy.
(d) She wants to be outside.

8. What happens when the General is so angry with Cherviakov, he yells "Get out"?
(a) Cherviakov goes home and dies.
(b) Cherviakov vents to his wife at home.
(c) Cherviakov becomes angry and takes back all his apologies.
(d) Cherviakov attempts to write a letter of apology to the General.

9. What is the total number of time Cherviakov attempts to apologize to the General?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Once.

10. What does Yegor dislike about the village?
(a) The large population.
(b) The arrogance.
(c) The noise.
(d) The poverty.

11. Why does Osip leave Olga?
(a) He leaves her when she announces her love for Ryabovsky.
(b) He pursues an academic career in Germany.
(c) Osip leaves because Olga is too dramatic.
(d) He dies from diphtheria.

12. What does Vanka remember about Christmastime?
(a) An orange in his stocking one year.
(b) Decorating the tree with his parents.
(c) Getting the tree with his grandfather.
(d) Making cookies with the cooks in the master's house.

13. What kind of reputation is Pavel Ivanych proud of?
(a) Being a womanizer.
(b) Being an honest man.
(c) Being a philosopher.
(d) Being insufferable.

14. What special gift did Nikolai have as a monk?
(a) Writing akathists.
(b) Writing sermons.
(c) Keeping the novices quiet and respectful.
(d) Have a good rapport with everyone.

15. When the narrator arrives to the other side of the river, the place can be described as __________.
(a) Bustling.
(b) Peaceful.
(c) Somber.
(d) Languid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Nevyrazimov and Paramon hear through the vents?

2. Why do Vasilisa's tears make Ivan happy?

3. What makes Nevyrazimov feel better?

4. What apprenticeship does Vanka work in?

5. What is Stepan studying?

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