After being called a goose for trying to trade a sow and two sacks of oats for a gun, a man cuts down a goose-shed built by his neighbor, with whom he shares this given name. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this first name shared by the two title characters of that story, whose title is often shortened to “The Squabble.” In the opening of another story, a barber with this first name rejects his wife’s coffee in favor of bread.
ANSWER: Ivan [accept Ivan Yakovlevich; accept “The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich”; accept “How the Two Ivans Quarrelled”; accept Ivan Ivanovitch; accept Ivan Nikiforovitch]
[10m] The author of “The Squabble” depicted Ivan Yakovlevich giving Major Kovalyev the title object of this short story, which is earlier seen heading to Riga on a stagecoach.
ANSWER: “The Nose” [or “Nos”]
[10e] This Russian author wrote the stories “The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich” and “The Nose.”
ANSWER: Nikolai Gogol
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