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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. Why can't Prokhorov leave the house?

2. What does Osip say the servants are bringing up?

3. What does Dobchinsky address Anna as?

4. What does the Governor say he was dreaming of the night before?

5. What does Dobchinsky say the Inspector General talks like?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Mayor decide to proceed?

2. How does Anna try to put down Maria?

3. How does Khlestakov react when Osip tells him the Mayor has arrived?

4. Why does the Mayor think other towns are too busy to show people around?

5. What does Khlestakov say in his letter?

6. How does the Warden think they should handle the Inspector?

7. How does the Judge react when he overhears the Mayor telling the Postmaster to steam open letters?

8. What do the officials think is the best way to handle the Inspector?

9. Why does the Mayor give Khlestakov 400 rubles?

10. How did the Postmaster find out "the inspector" is not an Inspector after all?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare a character to the person he or she was at the beginning of the play to what he or she is like at the end .

1) What did the character hope to achieve at the beginning of the play?

2) What events changes the character's ideas about life?

3) How has character changed by the end of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the way Gogol uses the other characters in the play. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the following and examine their real life equivalent and how the author adapted it for his play:

1) Life in small Russian towns.

2) The lives of Russian officials.

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