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

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

3. Who is the governor-general of Moscow at the time "The Clothesmender" takes place?
(a) Count Zakrevsky.
(b) Duke Sergeyevich.
(c) Baron Klinevich.
(d) Prince Golitsyn.

4. Gogol describes the doctor that Major Kovalyov goes to see as having pitch-black _____.
(a) Sidewhiskers.
(b) Boots.
(c) Eyes.
(d) Pants.

5. Who is charged with watching over Paka?
(a) Two muses.
(b) A handyman.
(c) Two Arguses.
(d) A shepherd from the village.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Bishop teach the three hermits to recite?

2. What does Paka say his name would be if he were a common boy and not a prince?

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

4. What does a friend who stops by Ivan Ivanovich's place say of his writing style?

5. What is the tailor handed when he walks into Room One after being summoned there by the occupant?

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