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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Cave by Evgeny Zamyatin.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the hussar pretend he is taking the stationmaster's daughter when he abducts her?
(a) Mass.
(b) Lunch.
(c) The store.
(d) Her friend's house.

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

3. What does Paka think of the boys who pass his house on the road?
(a) They are sick.
(b) They are lucky.
(c) They are rich.
(d) They are stupid.

4. Martin Martinych's face is as if it is made of clay, like many faces, back to whom?
(a) Caesar.
(b) Adam.
(c) Cain.
(d) Peter the Great.

5. What is the stationmaster's name?
(a) Samson Vyrin.
(b) Sasha Petrovich.
(c) Kolya Ivanovich.
(d) Nikolai Rensky.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With what does Ivan Ivanovich begin his thinking appropriate thoughts while sitting on the tombstone?

3. What does the Bishop teach the three hermits to recite?

4. Where is Lukerya taken when the weather gets cold?

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

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