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

2. In "The Clothesmender," what is the tailor's real last name?
(a) Laputin.
(b) Yulkin.
(c) Ivanovich.
(d) Vasily.

3. From where has the woman in "Sunstroke" boarded the steamer?
(a) Myshkin.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Kizhi.
(d) Anapa.

4. The clerk at the newspaper office says that the loss of Major Kovalyov's nose is (a) _____ business.
(a) Bureaucrat's.
(b) No one's
(c) Doctor's.
(d) Fool's.

5. In "Yuletide Story", who clears up the story of the middle-aged man for the doctor?
(a) The aunt.
(b) The militia.
(c) The grocer.
(d) The constable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the tailor in "The Clothesmender" have a special gift for?

2. Who does the woman in the story that Lukerya tells Pyotr Petrovich chase away beyond the sea?

3. What does the orphan girl bring to Lukerya when she drops by?

4. How is Ivan Ivanovich described by the painter who exhibits his portrait?

5. Who tells the merchant the story of the three hermits?

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