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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. What is the name of a type of Russian carriage?
(a) A chariot.
(b) A troika.
(c) A shaker.
(d) A rickshaw.

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

3. Who chokes on a chicken bone and dies that owned the house before the tailor?
(a) A dog trainer.
(b) A deacon.
(c) An executioner.
(d) A lieutenant.

4. In "The Nose", who is the head clerk in the Senate?
(a) Nevsky.
(b) Ivanovich.
(c) Yakovlevich.
(d) Yarygin.

5. What is the French name of the tailor?
(a) Lepoutant.
(b) Laurent.
(c) Lyonne.
(d) Leon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the occupant of Room One from the beginning of "The Clothesmender" do when the tailor tries to comfort him at the end of the story?

2. What is the smell Pyotr Petrovich encounters as he enters the bee hut?

3. Who asks Ivan Ivanovich if he will ever be sober in "Bobok"?

4. Where does "The Clothesmender" take place?

5. The stationmaster's daughter tries to soothe the sick hussar traveler with what?

(see the answer key)

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