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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the newspaper clerk offer Major Kovalyov as he is leaving his office?
(a) A cigarette.
(b) Snuff.
(c) Bad advice.
(d) A copy of Molière's "Cyrano de Bergerac".

2. From what language does Ivan Ivanovich translate books for booksellers?
(a) Polish.
(b) German.
(c) Croatian.
(d) French.

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

4. The young man who dies of "complications" goes to which doctor before he dies?
(a) Schultz.
(b) Botkin.
(c) Eck.
(d) Vasiliev.

5. To whom is Lukerya betrothed when she is a young girl?
(a) Vasily Polyakov.
(b) Borislav Ivanovich.
(c) Sergei Andropov.
(d) Nikolai Bogdanovich.

Short Answer Questions

1. Major Kovalyov's face is described as ____ where his nose used to be.

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

3. Who does the woman in the story that Lukerya tells Pyotr Petrovich chase away beyond the sea?

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

5. Whom does the stationmaster ask about his daughter's whereabouts as this person is snuffing out candles?

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