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

2. What is the tailor handed when he walks into Room One after being summoned there by the occupant?
(a) A pot of money.
(b) A glass of wine.
(c) The key to the room.
(d) The garment he mended.

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

4. 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 samovar.
(c) A tea press.
(d) A tea ball.

5. What does a friend of Ivan Ivanovich's say he thirsts to feel?
(a) Respect.
(b) Sedation.
(c) God's presence.
(d) Vodka going down his throat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the type of small wattle shed or hut that Pyotr Petrovich finds next to the bee-garden?

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

3. Who must be asked before the Bishop can visit the three hermits?

4. To where is Ivan Yakovlevich trying to escape when he is apprehended by the police?

5. Why does Ivan Ivanovich surmise that coffins become so heavy?

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