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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who goes hunting with Pyotr Petrovich in "A Living Relic"?
(a) Ivan.
(b) Ermolay.
(c) Aleksander.
(d) Nikolai.

2. Whom does the stationmaster ask about his daughter's whereabouts as this person is snuffing out candles?
(a) The candle maker.
(b) The nun.
(c) The friar.
(d) The sexton.

3. What street does the barber Ivan Yakovlevich live on?
(a) Pushkin Street.
(b) Kolya Avenue.
(c) Krasnoy Street.
(d) Voznesensky Avenue.

4. What are Pyotr Petrovich and his friend hunting for?
(a) Ptarmigan.
(b) Game hens.
(c) Pheasant.
(d) Black grouse.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the three hermits doing when the Bishop spies them through a spyglass?

2. The clerk at the newspaper office says that the loss of Major Kovalyov's nose is (a) _____ business.

3. Gogol describes the doctor that Major Kovalyov goes to see as having pitch-black _____.

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

5. What item of clothing does the occupant of Room One need repaired in "The Clothesmender"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lukerya say to Pyotr Petrovich about patience?

2. How is the stationmaster treated by most travelers?

3. What is Klinevich getting at with wanting to get rid of being ashamed while the corpses are conscious?

4. In "The Clothesmender", who stays at the hotel opposite the Governor-General's house and why?

5. How does the Captain try to talk the Bishop out of going to the island where the hermits live?

6. In "The Three Hermits", why is the Bishop still awake after everyone goes back to sleep?

7. What does Ivan Ivanovich think of the administrative news he hears the dead people talking about?

8. Why do the three hermits walk on water and chase the ship?

9. After discouragement from the newspaper and the district police inspector, how does Major Kovalyov feel when he gets home?

10. What does the benefactor from Room One do to the sign the tailor originally has up in front of his shop and how does he remedy the situation?

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