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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 does the tailor in "The Clothesmender" have a special gift for?
(a) Fitting.
(b) Pressing.
(c) Cutting.
(d) Darning.

2. Why does Major Kovalyov go to the newspaper office?
(a) To get a job.
(b) To put out an advertisement for his lost nose.
(c) To get a subscription.
(d) To see if his nose has reported him missing.

3. Who does Pyotr Petrovich say is the woman who takes up the sword in the story Lukerya tells?
(a) The Lady of Avalon.
(b) Lady Godiva.
(c) Joan of Arc.
(d) Catherine the Great.

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

5. What grade is the stationmaster?
(a) Second.
(b) Ninth.
(c) Fourteenth.
(d) Twentieth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does "The Clothesmender" take place?

2. With what does Ivan Ivanovich begin his thinking appropriate thoughts while sitting on the tombstone?

3. Who goes hunting with Pyotr Petrovich in "A Living Relic"?

4. The stationmaster's daughter tries to soothe the sick hussar traveler with what?

5. What is painted on the sign by the gate in "The Clothesmender"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Pyotr Petrovich interpret Lukerya's face when he encounters her in the bee hut?

2. How does the fisherman end up on the island with the three hermits?

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

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

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

6. What happens when the narrator of "The Clothesmender" and the gossip are walking to the tailor's house to inspect the room?

7. What are the two different types of collegiate assessors?

8. What are the two trials the tailor experiences that lead him to his eventual good fortune in "The Clothesmender"?

9. What does Pyotr Petrovich say about hunting in the rain?

10. After discouragement from the newspaper and the district police inspector, how does Major Kovalyov feel when he gets home?

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