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

2. What does Lukerya keep hearing on the day of her death in "The Living Relic"?
(a) A lark.
(b) A chorus of angels.
(c) Swarms of bees.
(d) Church bells.

3. With what does Ivan Ivanovich begin his thinking appropriate thoughts while sitting on the tombstone?
(a) Cleaning his mother's house.
(b) The Moscow Exhibition.
(c) Saving money.
(d) His priest.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Bishop think is speeding toward his ship?

2. Where is the stationmaster's daughter living with Captain Minsky?

3. In "The Stationmaster," what is the traveler wearing who appears at the station three years before the narrator's second visit?

4. Whom does Lukerya's betrothed eventually marry?

5. Where does Major Kovalyov confront his lost nose?

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