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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 jewelry is often given to the stationmaster's daughter by ladies who pass through the station?
(a) Earrings.
(b) Brooches.
(c) Rings.
(d) Necklaces.

2. To whose funeral does Ivan Ivanovich go in "Bobok"?
(a) A friend of a friend's.
(b) A former lover's.
(c) A Major General's.
(d) A Collegiate Councilor's.

3. How are the three hermits described?
(a) As heathens.
(b) As great singers.
(c) As godly men.
(d) As warlocks.

4. What do the three hermits live in?
(a) An earth hut.
(b) A cave.
(c) A tree.
(d) Out in the open.

5. In "The Stationmaster," what is the traveler wearing who appears at the station three years before the narrator's second visit?
(a) A sapphire ring
(b) A Circassian fur cap.
(c) A mink coat.
(d) A German patch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Lukerya lead the singing when she is young?

2. Who is the governor-general of Moscow at the time "The Clothesmender" takes place?

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

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

5. What is the smell Pyotr Petrovich encounters as he enters the bee hut?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do the three hermits walk on water and chase the ship?

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

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

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

6. How does Praskovya Osipovna react when Ivan Yakovlevich finds a nose in his loaf of bread?

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

8. What does Klinevich call Mr. Tarasevich and what does he say about his debauchery?

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

10. In "The Clothesmender", what does the priest say to the narrator are the advantages of living with the tailor?

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