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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Yuletide Story by Mikhail Zoshchenko.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Dolgushov injured?
(a) His belly.
(b) His head.
(c) His legs.
(d) His back.

2. When the couple in "Sunstroke" wakes up in the morning, what does the lieutenant smell in the air?
(a) Baking bread.
(b) A perfume factory.
(c) Hay and tar.
(d) Smoke.

3. What does the narrator of "Yuletide Story" say has likely caused the doctor's voice to grow husky and cracked?
(a) Yelling at his nurses.
(b) Eating coarse food.
(c) Alcohol consumption.
(d) Being around sick people.

4. What is the weather like when the ship sets sail in "The Three Hermits"?
(a) Windy.
(b) Cold.
(c) Raining.
(d) Fair.

5. What is the last thing Lukerya asks of Pyotr Petrovich?
(a) To give her some honey.
(b) To have his mother reduce the quit-rent for the peasants.
(c) To bring her back a deer from his next hunting trip.
(d) To find her lost daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator hope will loosen the stationmaster's tongue with regard to the whereabouts of his daughter?

2. Where does the Bishop go when he finds he doesn't feel like sleeping?

3. What does the doctor forget at the middle-aged citizen's apartment?

4. What is painted into his portrait that vexes Ivan Ivanovich?

5. Where is Lukerya taken when the weather gets cold?

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