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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Cave by Evgeny Zamyatin.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Pushkin describe the stationmaster?
(a) A busybody.
(b) A beak-nosed charlatan.
(c) A large oaf.
(d) As a veritable martyr.

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

3. What perhaps causes the icy roar of the wind in "The Cave"?
(a) A misplaced polar bear.
(b) A storm.
(c) A super-mammoth.
(d) The wrath of God.

4. What does the police inspector prefer to everything else in "The Nose"?
(a) Chocolate.
(b) A compliment.
(c) A bank note.
(d) Manicures.

5. The young man who dies of "complications" goes to which doctor before he dies?
(a) Eck.
(b) Botkin.
(c) Vasiliev.
(d) Schultz.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a friend of Ivan Ivanovich's say he thirsts to feel?

2. What does the Bishop offer the Captain in return for going to the island where the three hermits live?

3. What story is depicted on the stationmaster's wall?

4. What are Pyotr Petrovich and his friend hunting for?

5. What are the three hermits doing when the Bishop spies them through a spyglass?

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