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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 are the three hermits doing when the Bishop spies them through a spyglass?
(a) Eating a fish.
(b) Building a fire.
(c) Holding hands.
(d) Gathering water.

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

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

4. How does the Bishop teach the three hermits to pray?
(a) According to the teaching style of Rome.
(b) By taking them back to the ship.
(c) According to the Lord's scripture.
(d) Kneeling on the sand.

5. How are the three hermits described?
(a) As heathens.
(b) As great singers.
(c) As godly men.
(d) As warlocks.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the newspaper clerk offer Major Kovalyov as he is leaving his office?

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

4. What does Ivan Yakovlevich want for breakfast when he wakes up on March 25th?

5. What is the device used to make Russian tea that the stationmaster asks his daughter to start for him when the narrator arrives?

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