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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. Where is the narrator in "The Stationmaster" traveling in May 1816?
(a) N. Province.
(b) Novosibirsk.
(c) Siberia.
(d) Petersburg.

2. Where does Major Kovalyov confront his lost nose?
(a) Balshoi Theater.
(b) Nevsky Theater.
(c) Kazan Cathedral.
(d) Kirov Cathedral.

3. Where is the stationmaster's daughter living with Captain Minsky?
(a) Petersburg.
(b) Novosibirsk.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Latvia.

4. What does Major Kovalyov give the police officer as he is leaving?
(a) A gold watch.
(b) A red bank note.
(c) Snuff.
(d) Some bread.

5. The clerk at the newspaper office says that the loss of Major Kovalyov's nose is (a) _____ business.
(a) Doctor's.
(b) Fool's.
(c) Bureaucrat's.
(d) No one's

Short Answer Questions

1. What grade is the stationmaster?

2. 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?

3. Where does Ivan Yakovlevich go to dispose of the nose he finds in his bread?

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

5. How does Pushkin describe the stationmaster?

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