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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Living Relic by Ivan Turgenev.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the narrator in "The Stationmaster" traveling in May 1816?
(a) Novosibirsk.
(b) N. Province.
(c) Siberia.
(d) Petersburg.

2. What does Lukerya keep hearing on the day of her death in "The Living Relic"?
(a) A lark.
(b) Church bells.
(c) A chorus of angels.
(d) Swarms of bees.

3. Whom does the stationmaster ask about his daughter's whereabouts as this person is snuffing out candles?
(a) The friar.
(b) The sexton.
(c) The candle maker.
(d) The nun.

4. What is the stationmaster's name?
(a) Samson Vyrin.
(b) Nikolai Rensky.
(c) Kolya Ivanovich.
(d) Sasha Petrovich.

5. What is the name given to the station where the stationmaster and his daughter live?
(a) Line 45.
(b) Station X.
(c) Station Y.
(d) Stop 7.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gogol says that people of the capital have shown an interest in experiments with the effects of _____.

2. What street does the barber Ivan Yakovlevich live on?

3. What does Lukerya ask Pyotr Petrovich if he remembers as he is leaving the bee hut?

4. What does Ivan Yakovlevich want for breakfast when he wakes up on March 25th?

5. Who wants Major Kovalyov to marry her daughter?

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