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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 the tailor's new wife say she will bring to the marriage in "The Clothesmender"?
(a) Many children.
(b) Hard work.
(c) A huge dowry.
(d) Luck.

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

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

4. In "The Clothesmender," what does the tailor's grandfather sell?
(a) Shoe leather.
(b) Shoelaces.
(c) Insoles.
(d) Shoe polish.

5. Who goes hunting with Pyotr Petrovich in "A Living Relic"?
(a) Nikolai.
(b) Ivan.
(c) Aleksander.
(d) Ermolay.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is the Bishop sailing to in "The Three Hermits"?

3. What is the device used to make Russian tea that the stationmaster asks his daughter to start for him when the narrator arrives?

4. What street does the barber Ivan Yakovlevich live on?

5. Where does the Bishop go when he finds he doesn't feel like sleeping?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

6. What happens when the narrator of "The Clothesmender" and the gossip are walking to the tailor's house to inspect the room?

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

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

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

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

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