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

2. Who does Pyotr Petrovich say is the woman who takes up the sword in the story Lukerya tells?
(a) The Lady of Avalon.
(b) Lady Godiva.
(c) Catherine the Great.
(d) Joan of Arc.

3. What is the name of the priest who comes to see Lukerya?
(a) Father Aleksey.
(b) Father Fyodor.
(c) Father Dmitri.
(d) Father Leonid.

4. What is the last thing Lukerya asks of Pyotr Petrovich?
(a) To find her lost daughter.
(b) To have his mother reduce the quit-rent for the peasants.
(c) To bring her back a deer from his next hunting trip.
(d) To give her some honey.

5. Gogol describes the doctor that Major Kovalyov goes to see as having pitch-black _____.
(a) Eyes.
(b) Boots.
(c) Sidewhiskers.
(d) Pants.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where does Lukerya lead the singing when she is young?

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

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

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