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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. To where is Ivan Yakovlevich trying to escape when he is apprehended by the police?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Riga.
(c) Kamchatka.
(d) Siberia.

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

3. What is the name of a type of Russian carriage?
(a) A chariot.
(b) A shaker.
(c) A troika.
(d) A rickshaw.

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

5. What does the lady passing by a year prior to the story, "A Living Relic" give to Lukerya?
(a) Medicine for sleeplessness.
(b) A book on suffering.
(c) Lotion for dry skin.
(d) A red scarf.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the police inspector prefer to everything else in "The Nose"?

2. Where does Major Kovalyov confront his lost nose?

3. Who does the woman in the story that Lukerya tells Pyotr Petrovich chase away beyond the sea?

4. What is the name given to the station where the stationmaster and his daughter live?

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

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