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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Clothesmender by Nikolay Leskov.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Lukerya taken when the weather gets cold?
(a) To a hospital.
(b) To the blacksmith's house.
(c) To the bathhouse lobby.
(d) To the shed next to the furnace.

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

3. To what variety of collegiate assessors does Major Kovalyov belong?
(a) The clerk variety.
(b) The scholarly variety.
(c) The cornelian variety.
(d) The Caucasus variety.

4. Where does the Bishop go when he finds he doesn't feel like sleeping?
(a) The Captain's cabin.
(b) Below decks.
(c) The bow.
(d) The stern.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is the water in the cemetery that is being baled out with a dipper by the gravedigger in "Bobok"?

2. In "Bobok", among the palls at the cemetery, there were also two _____.

3. Who goes hunting with Pyotr Petrovich in "A Living Relic"?

4. Gogol says that people of the capital have shown an interest in experiments with the effects of _____.

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

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