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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What verb is called into question in the charter by the members of the meeting in the ballroom in Book 1: "An Assembly"?
2. The Count tells Nina in Book 1: "Anyway..." "Manners are not like" what?
3. Who is the barber of the Metropol Hotel?
4. By what name does the Count call the one-eyed cat at the Hotel Metropole?
5. At what time does the narrator describe Count Rostov being escorted through the gates of the Kremlin onto Red Square in Book 1: "1922: An Ambassador"?
Short Essay Questions
1. How are the Count's quarters described at the hotel?
2. What does the Count assert about etiquette in Book 1: “Anyway…”?
3. How has the Count's position within the Metropol changed with the opening of Book 3?
4. Who does the Count encounter on the roof of the Metropol in Book 2: “1926: Adieu”? What impact does this encounter have?
5. What is the Count's sentence that is decreed in the opening of the novel? What crime did the Count commit?
6. Why does the Count visit Marina's work room in Book 1: “An Assembly”?
7. What causes the conflict at the barber shop in Book 1:” An Appointment”?
8. How is Nina described when the Count first befriends her?
9. How is the Count's first encounter with the actress described in Book 2: “1923: An Actress, an Apparition, an Apiary”?
10. Whose meeting do the Count and Nina eavesdrop on in Book 1: “An Assembly”? Where is the meeting held?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the setting of the Hotel Metropol. How large is this establishment? What restaurants and other businesses are contained within the hotel? How has the hotel changed since its opening in 1905?
Essay Topic 2
Analyze and discuss the character of the Count in A Gentleman in Moscow. How old is the Count when the novel begins? How old is he when it ends? How does the Count's character evolve in the course of the story?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss and analyze the character of Mishka in A Gentleman in Moscow. Where did Mishka and the Count first meet? For how long have they known one another? What is Mishka's role in the novel?
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