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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What insulting word does Andreich call his daughter Maria?
(a) A slut.
(b) A whore.
(c) A harlot.
(d) A philosopher.

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Stepan studying?

2. What is the root of poverty in Anya's family?

3. What expression does Marfa, Bronze's wife, have as she is dying?

4. Why does Osip leave Olga?

5. What do Ieronym and the passenger see so beautiful in the sky as they cross the river?

Short Essay Questions

1. What stops Nevyrazimov from moving up in the world?

2. Why is Cherviakov so insistent on apologizing to the General?

3. Compare Nikolai Stepanych's (A Boring Story) public name to the real person.

4. How does Ieronym invite the narrator of "Easter Night" to ask about Ieronym's sorrows? How does he hint at his current sorrow?

5. Describe Yegor and Pelageya's relationship. How do they interact? How do they feel about one another?

6. Describe Anya's character and how it changes from the beginning of "Anna on the Neck" to the end.

7. What consumes Bronze so much in life over the last 50 years in "Rothschild's Fiddle"?

8. What is Katya's response to Nikolai when he writes a letter not to condemn the actors but the art of acting? What does this show about her character?

9. What makes akathists so difficult?

10. As Gusev drifts in and out of sleep, what thoughts interchange in his dreams?

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