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

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

3. With what does Ivan Ivanovich begin his thinking appropriate thoughts while sitting on the tombstone?
(a) The Moscow Exhibition.
(b) Saving money.
(c) His priest.
(d) Cleaning his mother's house.

4. To where does the police officer who brings Major Kovalyov's nose back to him, say he has to go when he is offered a cup of tea?
(a) A gymnasium.
(b) The post office.
(c) A mental asylum.
(d) A hospital.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Stationmaster," what is the traveler wearing who appears at the station three years before the narrator's second visit?

2. What does the narrator hope will loosen the stationmaster's tongue with regard to the whereabouts of his daughter?

3. What is the name given to the station where the stationmaster and his daughter live?

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

5. Who does Lukerya say has great patience when Pyotr Petrovich compliments her on her own patience?

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