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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the Bishop teach the three hermits to recite?
(a) Hail Mary.
(b) The Holy Rosary.
(c) The Lord's Prayer.
(d) The Nicean Creed.

3. Who tells the merchant the story of the three hermits?
(a) A missionary.
(b) A fisherman.
(c) A mercenary.
(d) A doctor.

4. What is the name of the type of small wattle shed or hut that Pyotr Petrovich finds next to the bee-garden?
(a) None of the answers is correct.
(b) An apiary.
(c) An amshanik.
(d) A plashet.

5. Who does the woman in the story that Lukerya tells Pyotr Petrovich chase away beyond the sea?
(a) The Sons of Hagar.
(b) The Canaanites.
(c) The Hittites.
(d) The Followers of Simon.

6. What does Lukerya keep hearing on the day of her death in "The Living Relic"?
(a) A lark.
(b) Church bells.
(c) A chorus of angels.
(d) Swarms of bees.

7. In "Bobok", among the palls at the cemetery, there were also two _____.
(a) Catacombs.
(b) Mausoleums.
(c) Carriages.
(d) Catafalques.

8. In "The Clothesmender", what is the name of the real estate agent who makes the sign for the tailor?
(a) Prokhor Ivanych.
(b) Segei Prokhov.
(c) Fyodor Galensky.
(d) Vasily Konych.

9. Where does Major Kovalyov confront his lost nose?
(a) Balshoi Theater.
(b) Nevsky Theater.
(c) Kirov Cathedral.
(d) Kazan Cathedral.

10. What does Ivan Ivanovich not like reading?
(a) Newspapers.
(b) Epitaphs.
(c) Obituaries.
(d) Propaganda posters.

11. What does Prince Vyazemsky facetiously call a person who holds the post of stationmaster?
(a) An ant.
(b) A democrat.
(c) A dog.
(d) A dictator.

12. To what variety of collegiate assessors does Major Kovalyov belong?
(a) The clerk variety.
(b) The Caucasus variety.
(c) The cornelian variety.
(d) The scholarly variety.

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

14. Where is Lukerya taken when the weather gets cold?
(a) To the blacksmith's house.
(b) To the bathhouse lobby.
(c) To the shed next to the furnace.
(d) To a hospital.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the Bishop go when he finds he doesn't feel like sleeping?

2. Major Kovalyov's face is described as ____ where his nose used to be.

3. Whom does the stationmaster ask about his daughter's whereabouts as this person is snuffing out candles?

4. What is the name given to the station where the stationmaster and his daughter live?

5. When confronted by Major Kovalyov, what line of work does the nose say he is in?

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