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

2. To what variety of collegiate assessors does Major Kovalyov belong?
(a) The scholarly variety.
(b) The clerk variety.
(c) The Caucasus variety.
(d) The cornelian variety.

3. What does the narrator hope will loosen the stationmaster's tongue with regard to the whereabouts of his daughter?
(a) Vodka.
(b) Rum punch.
(c) Sleepiness.
(d) Cough elixir.

4. In "The Nose", who is the head clerk in the Senate?
(a) Yarygin.
(b) Nevsky.
(c) Yakovlevich.
(d) Ivanovich.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What story is depicted on the stationmaster's wall?

2. What is the stationmaster's name?

3. Gogol says that people of the capital have shown an interest in experiments with the effects of _____.

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

5. When confronted by Major Kovalyov, what line of work does the nose say he is in?

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