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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 is the name of the stationmaster's daughter?
(a) Natalya.
(b) Svetlana.
(c) Anya.
(d) Dunya.

2. Who does Pyotr Petrovich say is the woman who takes up the sword in the story Lukerya tells?
(a) Lady Godiva.
(b) Joan of Arc.
(c) Catherine the Great.
(d) The Lady of Avalon.

3. Why does the second hermit have trouble reciting what the Bishop teaches him?
(a) Because his whiskers are overgrown.
(b) Because he won't listen.
(c) Because he is deaf.
(d) Because he doesn't speak the same language.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does "The Clothesmender" take place?

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

3. What is the French name of the tailor?

4. Why does Major Kovalyov go to the newspaper office?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In "The Clothesmender", who stays at the hotel opposite the Governor-General's house and why?

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

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

6. How does the Captain try to talk the Bishop out of going to the island where the hermits live?

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

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

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

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

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