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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. How is Ivan Ivanovich described by the painter who exhibits his portrait?
(a) Thankless.
(b) Morbid.
(c) Dry.
(d) Cheerful.

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

3. Who wants Major Kovalyov to marry her daughter?
(a) Mrs. Petrovna.
(b) Mrs. Osipovna.
(c) Mrs. Ivanovna.
(d) Mrs. Podtochina.

4. What does the newspaper clerk offer Major Kovalyov as he is leaving his office?
(a) A cigarette.
(b) Snuff.
(c) A copy of Molière's "Cyrano de Bergerac".
(d) Bad advice.

5. To whose funeral does Ivan Ivanovich go in "Bobok"?
(a) A friend of a friend's.
(b) A former lover's.
(c) A Major General's.
(d) A Collegiate Councilor's.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the hussar pretend he is taking the stationmaster's daughter when he abducts her?

3. What language are the verses in that tell the story on the stationmaster's wall?

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

5. Major Kovalyov's face is described as ____ where his nose used to be.

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