<span>B. The citizens did not identify themselves by their ethnicity as did the rest of the country.</span>
The barber Ivan Jakovlevitch finds Major Kovaloff's nose in his bread. It happens all of a sudden, without any introduction, on a usual morning. What makes this occurrence even weirder is the fact that he recognizes the nose, as if all the noses in this world aren't similar, and instantly starts quarrelling with his wife, who accuses him of having chopped off a customer's nose.
