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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What language are the verses in that tell the story on the stationmaster's wall?
(a) Arabic.
(b) German.
(c) French.
(d) Ukrainian.

2. Whom does Lukerya's betrothed eventually marry?
(a) Lukerya's sister.
(b) Agrafena.
(c) Katerina.
(d) Anya.

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

4. What is the real last name of the occupant of Room One in "The Clothesmender"?
(a) Laputin.
(b) Markov.
(c) Vasilivich.
(d) Golitsyn.

5. To where does the police officer who brings Major Kovalyov's nose back to him, say he has to go when he is offered a cup of tea?
(a) A mental asylum.
(b) A gymnasium.
(c) The post office.
(d) A hospital.

6. What story is depicted on the stationmaster's wall?
(a) The prodigal son.
(b) The fall of Zeus.
(c) The old man and the sea.
(d) The Crucifixion.

7. Who wants Major Kovalyov to marry her daughter?
(a) Mrs. Ivanovna.
(b) Mrs. Osipovna.
(c) Mrs. Podtochina.
(d) Mrs. Petrovna.

8. What is the last thing Lukerya asks of Pyotr Petrovich?
(a) To find her lost daughter.
(b) To have his mother reduce the quit-rent for the peasants.
(c) To give her some honey.
(d) To bring her back a deer from his next hunting trip.

9. The stationmaster's daughter tries to soothe the sick hussar traveler with what?
(a) Cough elixir.
(b) Bible readings.
(c) A vinegar-soaked handkerchief.
(d) Singing by his bedside.

10. When confronted by Major Kovalyov, what line of work does the nose say he is in?
(a) Military.
(b) Aristocratic.
(c) Scholarly.
(d) Government.

11. Who suggests in "Bobok" that the corpses should no longer be ashamed?
(a) Kudeyarov.
(b) Ivan Ivanovich.
(c) Catiche.
(d) Klinevich.

12. Who chokes on a chicken bone and dies that owned the house before the tailor?
(a) A dog trainer.
(b) An executioner.
(c) A deacon.
(d) A lieutenant.

13. Gogol describes the doctor that Major Kovalyov goes to see as having pitch-black _____.
(a) Eyes.
(b) Sidewhiskers.
(c) Pants.
(d) Boots.

14. Where does the hussar pretend he is taking the stationmaster's daughter when he abducts her?
(a) Her friend's house.
(b) Lunch.
(c) The store.
(d) Mass.

15. What street does the barber Ivan Yakovlevich live on?
(a) Voznesensky Avenue.
(b) Pushkin Street.
(c) Krasnoy Street.
(d) Kolya Avenue.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Major Kovalyov confront his lost nose?

2. Who else is on the ship besides the Bishop in "The Three Hermits"?

3. What color is the water in the cemetery that is being baled out with a dipper by the gravedigger in "Bobok"?

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

5. What does Lukerya keep hearing on the day of her death in "The Living Relic"?

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