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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) Government.
(b) Scholarly.
(c) Aristocratic.
(d) Military.

2. What street does the barber Ivan Yakovlevich live on?
(a) Krasnoy Street.
(b) Kolya Avenue.
(c) Pushkin Street.
(d) Voznesensky Avenue.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Gogol describes the doctor that Major Kovalyov goes to see as having pitch-black _____.

2. What is the device used to make Russian tea that the stationmaster asks his daughter to start for him when the narrator arrives?

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

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

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

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