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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is so different about Anna from the other women Gurov usually meets?
(a) Anna is from the countryside.
(b) Anna is older than usual.
(c) Anna is young and inexperienced.
(d) Anna is plainer looking.
2. Why is Christina Dmitrievna in charge of meeting the doctor?
(a) She is the most outspoken.
(b) She is assumed to be the most educated in the house.
(c) She is the only one who can speak Russian.
(d) She is Liza's mother.
3. In "The Bishop", what day does Bishop Pyotr unexpectedly sees his mother?
(a) The first day of Lent.
(b) Easter night.
(c) The Eve of Palm Sunday.
(d) Christmas Eve.
4. Why do Ivan Ivanych and Burkin call on Alekhin in "Gooseberries"?
(a) To get cover from rain.
(b) To see his maid Pelageya.
(c) To ask for income.
(d) For his stories.
5. Why does Vasilisa have trouble writing a letter to her daughter?
(a) Vasilisa is angry with her daughter but does not want to show it.
(b) There is too much to say.
(c) She is only doing it for her husband.
(d) Vasilisa has no news to write about.
6. What is it like for Bishop Pyotr when he serves abroad?
(a) He feels it is useless.
(b) He is homesick.
(c) He can see himself doing this forever.
(d) He is happy to see other parts of the world.
7. What renews Olga's youth?
(a) Being Vladimir's lover again.
(b) Finding her own independent passions.
(c) Mothering Sasha.
(d) Participating in a women's club.
8. Why do the wedding dressmakers cry?
(a) Anisim ruins the dresses during a drunken fit.
(b) Grigory pays them in sardines and candles instead of cash.
(c) Grigory pays them in counterfeit.
(d) Varvara and Aksinya yell at them for their work.
9. What causes the beadle to be so poor?
(a) His alcoholism.
(b) He was born poor and never had a chance at education.
(c) His alcoholic sons.
(d) His addiction with gambling.
10. What does Bishop Pyotr die of?
(a) Typhoid fever.
(b) Consumption.
(c) Yellow fever.
(d) Pneumonia.
11. In "A Medical Case", what is Korolev's impression of the countryside?
(a) It is dead.
(b) It is peaceful and quiet.
(c) It is archaic.
(d) It is boring.
12. In "The Lady with the Little Dog", how does Gurov treat women?
(a) With utmost respect.
(b) He tries not to be around them.
(c) As equals.
(d) Selfishly.
13. How do Alekhin and Burkin view Ivan's story about Nikolai and the gooseberries?
(a) They see no point to the story.
(b) They agree with Ivan's lesson at the end of the story.
(c) They think it is beautiful.
(d) They find it judgmental and pushy.
14. Why haven't Vasilisa and her husband received any word from Yefimya?
(a) Yefimya is too busy to write.
(b) Andrei did not mail Yefimya's letters.
(c) Yefimya is too ill to write.
(d) Andrei forbids her to contact her parents.
15. In "The House with the Mezzanine", the artist's lifestyle can be described as __________.
(a) Idle.
(b) Caring.
(c) Busy.
(d) Productive.
Short Answer Questions
1. To what does Korolev equate the factory?
2. What does Liza want Korolev to confirm?
3. What do Lyzhin and Starchenko wish for as they stand next to the dead body?
4. What do Olga and Kukin believe the public prefers?
5. What brings Anna back home to her husband?
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