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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 perhaps causes the icy roar of the wind in "The Cave"?
(a) A misplaced polar bear.
(b) A storm.
(c) A super-mammoth.
(d) The wrath of God.

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

3. Where is Lukerya taken when the weather gets cold?
(a) To the shed next to the furnace.
(b) To the bathhouse lobby.
(c) To the blacksmith's house.
(d) To a hospital.

4. Who does Lukerya say has great patience when Pyotr Petrovich compliments her on her own patience?
(a) Noah.
(b) Mary Magdalene.
(c) Simeon Stylites.
(d) John the Baptist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lukerya make the wreath out of in her dreams?

2. In "In Bondage," what does Antoshka say the peasants do to each other when they get mad?

3. What item of clothing does the occupant of Room One need repaired in "The Clothesmender"?

4. What does the tailor call his wife in "The Clothesmender"?

5. What does Paka think of the boys who pass his house on the road?

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