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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. Who tells the merchant the story of the three hermits?
(a) A mercenary.
(b) A missionary.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A fisherman.

2. What color is the water in the cemetery that is being baled out with a dipper by the gravedigger in "Bobok"?
(a) Brown.
(b) Green.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Black.

3. What does the lady passing by a year prior to the story, "A Living Relic" give to Lukerya?
(a) Medicine for sleeplessness.
(b) A red scarf.
(c) A book on suffering.
(d) Lotion for dry skin.

4. How does Pushkin describe the stationmaster?
(a) A busybody.
(b) A large oaf.
(c) A beak-nosed charlatan.
(d) As a veritable martyr.

5. What language are the verses in that tell the story on the stationmaster's wall?
(a) French.
(b) Ukrainian.
(c) German.
(d) Arabic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Lukerya taken when the weather gets cold?

2. What author's "bons mots" does Ivan Ivanovich say he wishes to collect?

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

4. What is the French name of the tailor?

5. What does the tailor's new wife say she will bring to the marriage in "The Clothesmender"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the doctor say about Major Kovalyov's missing nose?

2. Why do the three hermits walk on water and chase the ship?

3. What does the benefactor from Room One do to the sign the tailor originally has up in front of his shop and how does he remedy the situation?

4. What does Ivan Ivanovich think of the administrative news he hears the dead people talking about?

5. Who visits the stationmaster's grave at the end of the story and what does he realize?

6. How does Praskovya Osipovna react when Ivan Yakovlevich finds a nose in his loaf of bread?

7. What has Platon Nikolayevich apparently said about the stench in the graveyard that is perceived by the dead?

8. When does Lukerya die and what does she say about the sounds she hears?

9. What reason do some people that know of Lukerya give for her illness?

10. How does Dunya's father react to the hussar's asking if he can take her to church?

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