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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Three Hermits by Leo Tolstoy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What grade is the stationmaster?
(a) Second.
(b) Ninth.
(c) Twentieth.
(d) Fourteenth.

2. Why does Ivan Ivanovich surmise that coffins become so heavy?
(a) The type of wood used.
(b) The satin lining.
(c) Inertia of the body.
(d) The amount of sentimental items.

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

4. What is the name of the priest who comes to see Lukerya?
(a) Father Dmitri.
(b) Father Aleksey.
(c) Father Fyodor.
(d) Father Leonid.

5. When confronted by Major Kovalyov, what line of work does the nose say he is in?
(a) Aristocratic.
(b) Government.
(c) Military.
(d) Scholarly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ivan Ivanovich end his thinking with while sitting on the tombstone?

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

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

4. Whom does the stationmaster ask about his daughter's whereabouts as this person is snuffing out candles?

5. What does Lukerya make the wreath out of in her dreams?

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