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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Nose by Nikolay Gogol.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gogol says that people of the capital have shown an interest in experiments with the effects of _____.
(a) Sun exposure.
(b) Alcoholism.
(c) Hypnotism.
(d) Drug therapy.

2. What is the stationmaster's name?
(a) Nikolai Rensky.
(b) Kolya Ivanovich.
(c) Samson Vyrin.
(d) Sasha Petrovich.

3. What does Ivan Yakovlevich want for breakfast when he wakes up on March 25th?
(a) A bowl of oatmeal.
(b) Hot bread with onion.
(c) Tea and latkes.
(d) Blini with caviar and cream.

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

5. What is the name given to the station where the stationmaster and his daughter live?
(a) Line 45.
(b) Station Y.
(c) Station X.
(d) Stop 7.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Pushkin describe the stationmaster?

2. The clerk at the newspaper office says that the loss of Major Kovalyov's nose is (a) _____ business.

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

4. What grade is the stationmaster?

5. Where is the narrator in "The Stationmaster" traveling in May 1816?

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