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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 Ivan Ivanovich end his thinking with while sitting on the tombstone?
(a) Subliminal messages.
(b) Languidness.
(c) Legendary status.
(d) Astonishment.

2. In "In Bondage," what does Antoshka say the peasants do to each other when they get mad?
(a) Curse each other.
(b) Poison each other.
(c) Ostracize each other.
(d) Fight each other with swords.

3. Why does the second hermit have trouble reciting what the Bishop teaches him?
(a) Because his whiskers are overgrown.
(b) Because he is deaf.
(c) Because he won't listen.
(d) Because he doesn't speak the same language.

4. Where is the narrator in "The Stationmaster" traveling in May 1816?
(a) Siberia.
(b) Novosibirsk.
(c) Petersburg.
(d) N. Province.

5. Why does Major Kovalyov go to the newspaper office?
(a) To see if his nose has reported him missing.
(b) To get a subscription.
(c) To get a job.
(d) To put out an advertisement for his lost nose.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gogol describes the doctor that Major Kovalyov goes to see as having pitch-black _____.

2. What does the Bishop suggest that the three hermits have heard of when he is teaching them to pray?

3. To whose funeral does Ivan Ivanovich go in "Bobok"?

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

5. In "Sunstroke", what does the lieutenant hear in the cathedral?

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