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

2. What is the device used to make Russian tea that the stationmaster asks his daughter to start for him when the narrator arrives?
(a) A samovar.
(b) A copper kettle.
(c) A tea press.
(d) A tea ball.

3. To whom is Lukerya betrothed when she is a young girl?
(a) Vasily Polyakov.
(b) Nikolai Bogdanovich.
(c) Borislav Ivanovich.
(d) Sergei Andropov.

4. The clerk at the newspaper office says that the loss of Major Kovalyov's nose is (a) _____ business.
(a) No one's
(b) Doctor's.
(c) Fool's.
(d) Bureaucrat's.

5. What does Ivan Ivanovich end his thinking with while sitting on the tombstone?
(a) Astonishment.
(b) Subliminal messages.
(c) Legendary status.
(d) Languidness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is painted into his portrait that vexes Ivan Ivanovich?

2. What does Lukerya ask Pyotr Petrovich if he remembers as he is leaving the bee hut?

3. What does Lukerya make the wreath out of in her dreams?

4. What does the Bishop offer the Captain in return for going to the island where the three hermits live?

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

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