Question
This author wrote about students at a seminary in Kyiv in a tale from the collection Mirgorod. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author born in modern-day Ukraine, who wrote "The Nose" and "The Overcoat" as well as the novel Dead Souls.
ANSWER: Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol [or Mykola Vasyliovych Hohol or Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol-Yanovsky or Mykola Vasyliovych Hohol-Yanovskyi]
[10h] In this aforementioned story from Mirgorod, a student is forced to pray over the body of the witch he has killed. The witch then summons this story's title creature, who is the king of the gnomes.
ANSWER: "The Viy" ("vee") [or "Viy"]
[10m] In Mirgorod, "The Viy" is followed by a "tale" of a "quarrel" between two people with this first name. A 19th-century author with this first name wrote Diary of a Superfluous Man and the collection A Sportsman's Sketches.
ANSWER: Ivan ("ee-VAN") [accept Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev or "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich" or "Povest o tom, kak possorilsja Ivan Ivanovich s Ivanom Nikiforovichem"]
<Literature - European Literature - Short Fiction>
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 42 | 17.62 | 98% | 67% | 12% |