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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. What is the most remarkable thing about the couple's house?
(a) The cups snigger.
(b) The window screech.
(c) The gnomes laugh.
(d) The doors sing.

2. What does the author say a father's heart is not made from?
(a) A stone.
(b) An orange.
(c) Wood.
(d) Dirt.

3. What does Korzh take off the wall to punish Peter?
(a) A leather belt.
(b) A hunting whip.
(c) A tennis racket.
(d) A horse whip.

4. What is the witch's name?
(a) Valuka.
(b) Oksana.
(c) Solokha.
(d) Choub.

5. What is the weather like at the beginning of the story?
(a) Rainy.
(b) Windy.
(c) Boiling.
(d) Snowy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Valuka say Oksana has to bring her before she marries him?

2. What does the church elder like to drink?

3. What is Ivan Ivanovich's job?

4. What is said that Peter's parents died from?

5. What is Ivan's aunt's name?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ivan appear to Petro at the end of the story?

2. Why does Ivan have to retire from the regiment?

3. How does Ivas save Pyotr from a beating?

4. How does Grigory react when Ivan asks him about signing over the deed?

5. What does Pytor have to do before he marries Pidorka?

6. Why do the devil and the witch want to cause problems between Valuka and Choub?

7. What is the curse that Petro had put upon him?

8. How do the devil and the witch leave Dikanta in pitch darkness?

9. How does Katerina die in this story?

10. How does Pulkeria's life change when her cat disappears?

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