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

2. What does Dolgushov hand to the troop commander?
(a) His telephone.
(b) His regimental book.
(c) His flints.
(d) His eyeglasses.

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

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

5. What does the Bishop teach the three hermits to recite?
(a) The Holy Rosary.
(b) Hail Mary.
(c) The Lord's Prayer.
(d) The Nicean Creed.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "In Bondage," what does Antoshka say the peasants do to each other when they get mad?

2. What is the name of the master's apprentice who snores in "Sleepy"?

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. In the morning, what is Varka asked to do after she lights the stove?

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