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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is the stationmaster's daughter living with Captain Minsky?
(a) Petersburg.
(b) Latvia.
(c) Novosibirsk.
(d) Moscow.

3. Whom does Lukerya's betrothed eventually marry?
(a) Agrafena.
(b) Anya.
(c) Katerina.
(d) Lukerya's sister.

4. Who asks Ivan Ivanovich if he will ever be sober in "Bobok"?
(a) Semyon Ardalyonovich.
(b) Maksim Markov.
(c) Georgi Pavlov.
(d) Evgeni Fomavich.

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

6. How does Pushkin describe the stationmaster?
(a) A beak-nosed charlatan.
(b) A large oaf.
(c) As a veritable martyr.
(d) A busybody.

7. What color is the water in the cemetery that is being baled out with a dipper by the gravedigger in "Bobok"?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Brown.
(c) Black.
(d) Green.

8. What does Ivan Ivanovich do that causes the corpses to go silent?
(a) He drops his bottle.
(b) He talks to them.
(c) He coughs.
(d) He sneezes.

9. Why does Major Kovalyov go to the newspaper office?
(a) To put out an advertisement for his lost nose.
(b) To get a job.
(c) To see if his nose has reported him missing.
(d) To get a subscription.

10. What does the Bishop think is speeding toward his ship?
(a) A whale.
(b) A small boat.
(c) A falling star.
(d) A shark.

11. Who chokes on a chicken bone and dies that owned the house before the tailor?
(a) A lieutenant.
(b) An executioner.
(c) A dog trainer.
(d) A deacon.

12. What author's "bons mots" does Ivan Ivanovich say he wishes to collect?
(a) Mallarmé's.
(b) Balzac's.
(c) Voltaire's.
(d) Rabelais'.

13. What does the newspaper clerk offer Major Kovalyov as he is leaving his office?
(a) A cigarette.
(b) Snuff.
(c) Bad advice.
(d) A copy of Molière's "Cyrano de Bergerac".

14. How do the three hermits greet the Bishop when he lands on their island?
(a) They bow.
(b) They kiss his hand.
(c) They run away.
(d) They turn their backs.

15. Where does Ivan Yakovlevich go to dispose of the nose he finds in his bread?
(a) Police Bridge.
(b) Anichkin Bridge.
(c) Dolya Bridge.
(d) St. Isaac's Bridge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the tailor call his wife in "The Clothesmender"?

2. What is the name given to the station where the stationmaster and his daughter live?

3. To whose funeral does Ivan Ivanovich go in "Bobok"?

4. What is the device used to make Russian tea that the stationmaster asks his daughter to start for him when the narrator arrives?

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

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