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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ivan Ivanovich do that causes the corpses to go silent?
(a) He drops his bottle.
(b) He coughs.
(c) He talks to them.
(d) He sneezes.

2. What does the lady passing by a year prior to the story, "A Living Relic" give to Lukerya?
(a) Lotion for dry skin.
(b) Medicine for sleeplessness.
(c) A book on suffering.
(d) A red scarf.

3. Who is the governor-general of Moscow at the time "The Clothesmender" takes place?
(a) Baron Klinevich.
(b) Prince Golitsyn.
(c) Duke Sergeyevich.
(d) Count Zakrevsky.

4. What does the Bishop offer the Captain in return for going to the island where the three hermits live?
(a) Solace.
(b) Payment.
(c) A new coat.
(d) A job with the church.

5. The young man who dies of "complications" goes to which doctor before he dies?
(a) Schultz.
(b) Vasiliev.
(c) Eck.
(d) Botkin.

6. What is the tailor handed when he walks into Room One after being summoned there by the occupant?
(a) The key to the room.
(b) A glass of wine.
(c) The garment he mended.
(d) A pot of money.

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

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

9. What is the name given to the station where the stationmaster and his daughter live?
(a) Station Y.
(b) Station X.
(c) Line 45.
(d) Stop 7.

10. Who in the church suggests a place for the narrator to live in "The Clothesmender"?
(a) The cleaning person.
(b) The bishop.
(c) The organist.
(d) The psalmodist.

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

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

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

14. Gogol says that people of the capital have shown an interest in experiments with the effects of _____.
(a) Hypnotism.
(b) Drug therapy.
(c) Alcoholism.
(d) Sun exposure.

15. Whom does the stationmaster ask about his daughter's whereabouts as this person is snuffing out candles?
(a) The friar.
(b) The nun.
(c) The sexton.
(d) The candle maker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ivan Yakovlevich go to dispose of the nose he finds in his bread?

2. How does the Bishop teach the three hermits to pray?

3. What does a friend who stops by Ivan Ivanovich's place say of his writing style?

4. To what variety of collegiate assessors does Major Kovalyov belong?

5. Who is staying in Room One the next New Year's Eve in "The Clothesmender"?

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