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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who must be asked before the Bishop can visit the three hermits?
(a) The General.
(b) The Colonel.
(c) The Cardinal.
(d) The Captain.

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

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

4. What is the name of the priest who comes to see Lukerya?
(a) Father Dmitri.
(b) Father Fyodor.
(c) Father Aleksey.
(d) Father Leonid.

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

6. Who turns out to be following the ship the Bishop is on?
(a) The fisherman who initially told the story of the hermits.
(b) A whaling vessel.
(c) The three hermits.
(d) A pirate ghost.

7. To whom is Lukerya betrothed when she is a young girl?
(a) Borislav Ivanovich.
(b) Vasily Polyakov.
(c) Nikolai Bogdanovich.
(d) Sergei Andropov.

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

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

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

11. How does Pushkin describe the stationmaster?
(a) A beak-nosed charlatan.
(b) A busybody.
(c) As a veritable martyr.
(d) A large oaf.

12. What does the orphan girl bring to Lukerya when she drops by?
(a) Gold pieces.
(b) Friends.
(c) Cakes.
(d) Flowers.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Prince Vyazemsky facetiously call a person who holds the post of stationmaster?

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

3. What is the name of the stationmaster's daughter?

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

5. Why does Ivan Ivanovich surmise that coffins become so heavy?

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