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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Living Relic by Ivan Turgenev.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Pushkin describe the stationmaster?
(a) A large oaf.
(b) A busybody.
(c) As a veritable martyr.
(d) A beak-nosed charlatan.

3. Who does the woman in the story that Lukerya tells Pyotr Petrovich chase away beyond the sea?
(a) The Hittites.
(b) The Sons of Hagar.
(c) The Followers of Simon.
(d) The Canaanites.

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

5. What jewelry is often given to the stationmaster's daughter by ladies who pass through the station?
(a) Earrings.
(b) Rings.
(c) Necklaces.
(d) Brooches.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the orphan girl bring to Lukerya when she drops by?

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

3. To whom is Lukerya betrothed when she is a young girl?

4. What are Pyotr Petrovich and his friend hunting for?

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

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