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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why have the general and his friends arrived at Phythagor's house?
(a) For dinner.
(b) For some drinks.
(c) To get back money.
(d) To borrow money.

2. What does Kovalev see emerge from the carriage outside the pastry shop?
(a) His nose.
(b) His wife.
(c) His dog.
(d) His hand.

3. Where does Ivanovich wait for the government official's daughter?
(a) Outside her gate.
(b) Outside the stable.
(c) In the graveyard.
(d) In the cafe.

4. Why was the painter unable to complete the moneylender's portrait.
(a) He died before he could.
(b) He felt evilness.
(c) He stole money from the moneylender.
(d) He lost the use of his hands.

5. What kind of drug does the shop owner sell?
(a) Opium.
(b) Cocaine.
(c) Amphetimines.
(d) Hashish.

6. What does Ivan tell the courts that Nikiforovich intends to do to his property?
(a) Steal his carpets.
(b) Break his windows.
(c) Con him out of it.
(d) Set it alight.

7. What does Schiller say Hoffman takes too much of?
(a) Pills.
(b) Opium.
(c) Snuff.
(d) Candy.

8. What does Yakovlevich find in the middle of his bread?
(a) A finger.
(b) A map.
(c) A nose.
(d) A coin.

9. Where does Pythagor hide?
(a) Under his bed.
(b) In his carriage.
(c) Behind the curtains.
(d) In his stables.

10. What part of his body does Piskarev cut?
(a) His hair.
(b) His ear.
(c) His throat.
(d) His nose.

11. What is the name of the young artist in this story?
(a) Nevsky.
(b) Myskin.
(c) Piskarev.
(d) Davina.

12. What kind of robes did the old money lender wear?
(a) African robes.
(b) Parisian robes.
(c) Asian robes.
(d) Royal robes.

13. What is the nationality of the shop owner?
(a) Persian.
(b) Chinese.
(c) Mexican.
(d) Vietnamese.

14. What does the brown sow run off with?
(a) Nikiforovich's complaint document.
(b) Nikiforovich's geese.
(c) Ivan's gun.
(d) Ivan's newspaper.

15. Who asks Chartov to view the work of a young artist?
(a) The Oil People.
(b) The Magic Circle.
(c) The Art Society.
(d) The Landscapers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Pirogov's rank?

2. What is the name of the area in St. Petersburg where many poor and retired people live?

3. Where does Ivan say he is going when the policeman stops him?

4. What did Chartkov's professor warn not to become?

5. What does the nose do in the Cathedral?

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