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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 a friend of Ivan Ivanovich's say he thirsts to feel?
(a) Sedation.
(b) Respect.
(c) God's presence.
(d) Vodka going down his throat.

2. Where does Ivan Yakovlevich go to dispose of the nose he finds in his bread?
(a) St. Isaac's Bridge.
(b) Anichkin Bridge.
(c) Police Bridge.
(d) Dolya Bridge.

3. Where does the hussar pretend he is taking the stationmaster's daughter when he abducts her?
(a) Mass.
(b) Lunch.
(c) The store.
(d) Her friend's house.

4. Whom does the tailor in "The Clothesmender" marry?
(a) The sister of the assistant barman.
(b) The general's daughter.
(c) The woman he buys his thread from.
(d) His second cousin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ivan Ivanovich do that causes the corpses to go silent?

2. Where is Lukerya taken when the weather gets cold?

3. What does Ivan Ivanovich end his thinking with while sitting on the tombstone?

4. What author's "bons mots" does Ivan Ivanovich say he wishes to collect?

5. What does the tailor in "The Clothesmender" have a special gift for?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In "The Three Hermits", why is the Bishop still awake after everyone goes back to sleep?

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

4. What does the benefactor from Room One do to the sign the tailor originally has up in front of his shop and how does he remedy the situation?

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

6. How does Dunya react to meeting the narrator in "The Stationmaster"?

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

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

9. According to the Bishop in "The Three Hermits", how does God reveal himself to men?

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

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