View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Bobok by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do editors say that Ivan Ivanovich's stories lack when he brings them to their offices?
(a) Salt.
(b) Coherence.
(c) Humor.
(d) Dirt.

2. What does Lukerya make the wreath out of in her dreams?
(a) Lavender.
(b) Daisies.
(c) Baby's breath.
(d) Cornflowers.

3. Who wants Major Kovalyov to marry her daughter?
(a) Mrs. Petrovna.
(b) Mrs. Ivanovna.
(c) Mrs. Osipovna.
(d) Mrs. Podtochina.

4. Whom does Lukerya's betrothed eventually marry?
(a) Anya.
(b) Lukerya's sister.
(c) Katerina.
(d) Agrafena.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Ivan Ivanovich described by the painter who exhibits his portrait?

2. What does a friend of Ivan Ivanovich's say he thirsts to feel?

3. From what language does Ivan Ivanovich translate books for booksellers?

4. What does the police inspector prefer to everything else in "The Nose"?

5. What is the device used to make Russian tea that the stationmaster asks his daughter to start for him when the narrator arrives?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 185 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample