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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through In Bondage by Fyodor Sologub.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lukerya keep hearing on the day of her death in "The Living Relic"?
(a) A chorus of angels.
(b) Swarms of bees.
(c) A lark.
(d) Church bells.

2. Where does Paka tell the boys that he and his mother used to live?
(a) In a mansion.
(b) In a tree house.
(c) In a crystal cave.
(d) In a castle.

3. What author's "bons mots" does Ivan Ivanovich say he wishes to collect?
(a) Balzac's.
(b) Voltaire's.
(c) Mallarmé's.
(d) Rabelais'.

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

5. What is the name of Varka's mother?
(a) Pelageya.
(b) Evgenia.
(c) Fekla.
(d) Agafia.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "In Bondage", where does Paka wish to play?

2. What do the three hermits live in?

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

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

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

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