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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. When confronted by Major Kovalyov, what line of work does the nose say he is in?
(a) Aristocratic.
(b) Scholarly.
(c) Government.
(d) Military.

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

3. What story is depicted on the stationmaster's wall?
(a) The Crucifixion.
(b) The fall of Zeus.
(c) The prodigal son.
(d) The old man and the sea.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what variety of collegiate assessors does Major Kovalyov belong?

3. What language are the verses in that tell the story on the stationmaster's wall?

4. What does Ivan Yakovlevich want for breakfast when he wakes up on March 25th?

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

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