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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Yuletide Story by Mikhail Zoshchenko.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. With what does Ivan Ivanovich begin his thinking appropriate thoughts while sitting on the tombstone?
(a) The Moscow Exhibition.
(b) Cleaning his mother's house.
(c) His priest.
(d) Saving money.

3. What does the wife of Martin Martinych's downstairs neighbor hide under a napkin when he comes into their room?
(a) A coin.
(b) A spoon.
(c) A bowl.
(d) A coal.

4. Major Kovalyov's face is described as ____ where his nose used to be.
(a) Two holes.
(b) Tough as a board.
(c) A large moon.
(d) Smooth as a pancake.

5. Where is Dolgushov injured?
(a) His belly.
(b) His legs.
(c) His head.
(d) His back.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Paka tell the boys that he and his mother used to live?

2. What are the three hermits doing when the Bishop spies them through a spyglass?

3. What is the name of a type of Russian carriage?

4. What part of the body does the middle-aged citizen who comes to visit the doctor in "Yuletide Story" complain about?

5. What does Paka see on the eldest boy that surprises him?

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