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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 are Pyotr Petrovich and his friend hunting for?
(a) Black grouse.
(b) Game hens.
(c) Pheasant.
(d) Ptarmigan.

2. How does the Bishop teach the three hermits to pray?
(a) According to the teaching style of Rome.
(b) According to the Lord's scripture.
(c) By taking them back to the ship.
(d) Kneeling on the sand.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the type of small wattle shed or hut that Pyotr Petrovich finds next to the bee-garden?

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

3. The young man who dies of "complications" goes to which doctor before he dies?

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

5. From what language does Ivan Ivanovich translate books for booksellers?

Short Essay Questions

1. After discouragement from the newspaper and the district police inspector, how does Major Kovalyov feel when he gets home?

2. When does Lukerya die and what does she say about the sounds she hears?

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

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

5. How does the fisherman end up on the island with the three hermits?

6. What happens as the Bishop returns to the ship in "The Three Hermits"?

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

8. What is Ivan Ivanovich's impression of the voices coming from the graves when he first hears them?

9. What are the two different types of collegiate assessors?

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

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