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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. Where does Lukerya lead the singing when she is young?
(a) Novosibirsk.
(b) Aldan.
(c) Kotovo.
(d) Spasskoye.

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

3. What story is depicted on the stationmaster's wall?
(a) The fall of Zeus.
(b) The old man and the sea.
(c) The Crucifixion.
(d) The prodigal son.

4. In "Bobok", among the palls at the cemetery, there were also two _____.
(a) Carriages.
(b) Catafalques.
(c) Catacombs.
(d) Mausoleums.

5. The young man who dies of "complications" goes to which doctor before he dies?
(a) Botkin.
(b) Vasiliev.
(c) Schultz.
(d) Eck.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Major Kovalyov go to the newspaper office?

3. To whose funeral does Ivan Ivanovich go in "Bobok"?

4. Whom does the stationmaster ask about his daughter's whereabouts as this person is snuffing out candles?

5. What grade is the stationmaster?

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