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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is painted into his portrait that vexes Ivan Ivanovich?
(a) A large chin.
(b) A sea of pockmarks.
(c) Forehead lines.
(d) Two warts.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What jewelry is often given to the stationmaster's daughter by ladies who pass through the station?

4. What item of clothing does the occupant of Room One need repaired in "The Clothesmender"?

5. What does Lukerya make the wreath out of in her dreams?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "The Stationmaster", what is the narrator's main concern when he arrives at station X?

2. How does Major Kovalyov try to obscure his missing nose when he goes into the coffee house and when he leaves?

3. What happens when the stationmaster arrives in Petersburg?

4. What is Klinevich getting at with wanting to get rid of being ashamed while the corpses are conscious?

5. What has Platon Nikolayevich apparently said about the stench in the graveyard that is perceived by the dead?

6. What does Lukerya say to Pyotr Petrovich about patience?

7. Describe the character of the wife of Laputin, the benefactor in "The Clothesmender".

8. How does Ivan Ivanovich feel about the half-eaten sandwich he sees on the tombstone beside him?

9. How does Pyotr Petrovich interpret Lukerya's face when he encounters her in the bee hut?

10. What does Ivan Ivanovich think of the administrative news he hears the dead people talking about?

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