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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the root of poverty in Anya's family?
(a) Her mother's death.
(b) Her father's physical disability.
(c) Pyotr's alcoholism.
(d) Her brother's irresponsible ways.

2. How does Modest Andreich view his wife?
(a) He is in love with her innocence.
(b) She is there on a friend's advice, not because he wants a wife.
(c) She is there to advance his career.
(d) He is in love with her beauty.

3. Whom does Varka see in her dreams?
(a) Singing lamps.
(b) Melting candles.
(c) Babies with wings.
(d) Her late parents.

4. 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) The derailment is caused by the village people taking the nuts.
(c) Grigoriev is the one behind it all.
(d) The wrong man is in jail for last year's accident.

5. What do Stepanych and his wife discuss every morning?
(a) The weather.
(b) His health and their son.
(c) Liza.
(d) Katya.

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

7. What is Grigoriev's punishment?
(a) Convincing his village to stop taking nuts from the rail lines.
(b) Putting new nuts on the rail lines.
(c) A year of imprisonment.
(d) A term of hard labor.

8. What is it about Mr. Gnekker that worries Nikolai Stepanych?
(a) That he may be a sponger.
(b) That he may be too rich for their blood.
(c) That he is not handsome enough for his Liza.
(d) That he is a con artist.

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

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

11. The university Stepanych works at can be described as __________.
(a) Technologically advanced.
(b) Welcoming.
(c) A leader in medicine.
(d) Dismal.

12. What does it take for Olga to get over Ryabovsky?
(a) Olga gets to know him and is bored.
(b) Seeing Ryabovsky with another woman.
(c) Osip becomes famous.
(d) Ryabovsky is denied an art show.

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

14. The condition of Stepan and Anyuta's room can be described as __________.
(a) Meticulously clean.
(b) Sparse.
(c) Averagely boring.
(d) Messy.

15. What does Ivan Gromov suffer from?
(a) Hallucinations.
(b) Paranoia.
(c) Bipolar disorder.
(d) Neurosis.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Yegor describe himself?

2. What brought Gusev away to the Far East?

3. What does Anya do for her family when she gains access to money?

4. In "In Exile", what does the Explainer advise the Tartar?

5. What happens when the General is so angry with Cherviakov, he yells "Get out"?

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