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

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

3. What is painted on the sign by the gate in "The Clothesmender"?
(a) Two clergy robes.
(b) A wedding dress.
(c) An armyak and a poddyovka.
(d) A krasnya kniga.

4. What does the tailor in "The Clothesmender" have a special gift for?
(a) Cutting.
(b) Darning.
(c) Fitting.
(d) Pressing.

5. Gogol describes the doctor that Major Kovalyov goes to see as having pitch-black _____.
(a) Sidewhiskers.
(b) Pants.
(c) Eyes.
(d) Boots.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the three hermits live in?

2. What is the stationmaster's name?

3. In "The Clothesmender," what does the tailor's grandfather sell?

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

5. What does a friend of Ivan Ivanovich's say he thirsts to feel?

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