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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the smell Pyotr Petrovich encounters as he enters the bee hut?
(a) Mint and melissa.
(b) Lavender and roses.
(c) Mesquite and mahogany.
(d) Rosemary and thyme.

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

3. Who is staying in Room One the next New Year's Eve in "The Clothesmender"?
(a) The Queen.
(b) The Ambassador.
(c) The President.
(d) The Big Shot.

4. What is the French name of the tailor?
(a) Leon.
(b) Lyonne.
(c) Lepoutant.
(d) Laurent.

5. To whose funeral does Ivan Ivanovich go in "Bobok"?
(a) A former lover's.
(b) A Collegiate Councilor's.
(c) A Major General's.
(d) A friend of a friend's.

6. Where is the Bishop sailing to in "The Three Hermits"?
(a) The Kuril Islands.
(b) The Sakhalin Islands.
(c) The Solovetsky Islands.
(d) Crete.

7. The young man who dies of "complications" goes to which doctor before he dies?
(a) Schultz.
(b) Vasiliev.
(c) Botkin.
(d) Eck.

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

9. In "The Clothesmender," what is the tailor's real last name?
(a) Vasily.
(b) Laputin.
(c) Ivanovich.
(d) Yulkin.

10. What does the narrator hope will loosen the stationmaster's tongue with regard to the whereabouts of his daughter?
(a) Sleepiness.
(b) Cough elixir.
(c) Vodka.
(d) Rum punch.

11. What does the lady passing by a year prior to the story, "A Living Relic" give to Lukerya?
(a) Lotion for dry skin.
(b) Medicine for sleeplessness.
(c) A red scarf.
(d) A book on suffering.

12. Who does Lukerya say has great patience when Pyotr Petrovich compliments her on her own patience?
(a) John the Baptist.
(b) Mary Magdalene.
(c) Noah.
(d) Simeon Stylites.

13. What language are the verses in that tell the story on the stationmaster's wall?
(a) Ukrainian.
(b) French.
(c) German.
(d) Arabic.

14. To whom is Lukerya betrothed when she is a young girl?
(a) Vasily Polyakov.
(b) Nikolai Bogdanovich.
(c) Sergei Andropov.
(d) Borislav Ivanovich.

15. What does Ivan Ivanovich end his thinking with while sitting on the tombstone?
(a) Subliminal messages.
(b) Languidness.
(c) Legendary status.
(d) Astonishment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Lukerya lead the singing when she is young?

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

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

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

5. How are the three hermits described?

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