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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Three Hermits by Leo Tolstoy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What grade is the stationmaster?
(a) Second.
(b) Ninth.
(c) Fourteenth.
(d) Twentieth.

2. Who turns out to be following the ship the Bishop is on?
(a) A pirate ghost.
(b) The fisherman who initially told the story of the hermits.
(c) The three hermits.
(d) A whaling vessel.

3. What author's "bons mots" does Ivan Ivanovich say he wishes to collect?
(a) Voltaire's.
(b) Rabelais'.
(c) Mallarmé's.
(d) Balzac's.

4. What does Prince Vyazemsky facetiously call a person who holds the post of stationmaster?
(a) An ant.
(b) A dog.
(c) A democrat.
(d) A dictator.

5. Who tells the merchant the story of the three hermits?
(a) A fisherman.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A mercenary.
(d) A missionary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the priest who comes to see Lukerya?

2. The clerk at the newspaper office says that the loss of Major Kovalyov's nose is (a) _____ business.

3. What does Ivan Ivanovich end his thinking with while sitting on the tombstone?

4. Who does Lukerya say has great patience when Pyotr Petrovich compliments her on her own patience?

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

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