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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Nose by Nikolay Gogol.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the hussar pretend he is taking the stationmaster's daughter when he abducts her?
(a) The store.
(b) Lunch.
(c) Her friend's house.
(d) Mass.

2. The clerk at the newspaper office says that the loss of Major Kovalyov's nose is (a) _____ business.
(a) Doctor's.
(b) Fool's.
(c) No one's
(d) Bureaucrat's.

3. What story is depicted on the stationmaster's wall?
(a) The Crucifixion.
(b) The old man and the sea.
(c) The fall of Zeus.
(d) The prodigal son.

4. Who wants Major Kovalyov to marry her daughter?
(a) Mrs. Osipovna.
(b) Mrs. Ivanovna.
(c) Mrs. Podtochina.
(d) Mrs. Petrovna.

5. What does Prince Vyazemsky facetiously call a person who holds the post of stationmaster?
(a) A dog.
(b) A dictator.
(c) A democrat.
(d) An ant.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Pushkin describe the stationmaster?

2. To where does the police officer who brings Major Kovalyov's nose back to him, say he has to go when he is offered a cup of tea?

3. What does Ivan Yakovlevich want for breakfast when he wakes up on March 25th?

4. Gogol describes the doctor that Major Kovalyov goes to see as having pitch-black _____.

5. What does the police inspector prefer to everything else in "The Nose"?

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