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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 event does the Police Chief arrange?
(a) A wedding.
(b) A funeral.
(c) A fair.
(d) A dinner party.

2. What does the nose do in the Cathedral?
(a) Dance.
(b) Pray.
(c) Confess.
(d) Sing.

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

4. What does Ivanovich do with the letter when he reads Sophie wants to marry someone else?
(a) He burns them.
(b) He scribbles over them.
(c) He throws them out of his window.
(d) He tears them up.

5. What is the name of the young artist who looks in the art shop?
(a) Bogdan.
(b) Chartkov.
(c) Nikita.
(d) Andre,

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Medgi think of the clerk that sharpens pens in the office?

2. Who asks Chartov to view the work of a young artist?

3. Why do the men have to unbutton their uniforms?

4. What does Nikiforovich call Ivan when he asks for his gun?

5. What kind of mare does the general show the men?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ivanovich have to bring his sow before the court?

2. What was the town of B like before the regiment arrived?

3. How does Kovalev react when his nose returns?

4. How does Pirogov get beaten up in this story?

5. How does Ivan dispose of Kovalev's nose?

6. How is Pythagor embarrassed at the end of the story?

7. What does Piskarev visualize when he takes the opium?

8. How does Ivanonich insult Nikiforovich at the beginning of the story?

9. What is Pythagor's social standing?

10. How does Chartokov's life change when he becomes rich?

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