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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 does Dobchinsky say the Inspector General talks like?

2. What does the governor say the patients look as grimy as?

3. What world does Khlestakov say he is accustomed to living in?

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

5. What has Derzhimorda gone off in?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the Merchants react to the Mayor's anger?

2. How does the Inspector of Schools show his nervousness?

3. How does Khlestakov react when Maria tells him he has gone too far?

4. What does Osip tell Khlestakov about the Landlord?

5. What do Anna and Maria argue about?

6. How does Khlestakov tease the Inspector of Schools?

7. What do Maria and Anna argue about?

8. Why does the Mayor want to get the Inspector drunk?

9. What does the Mayor tell the Merchants?

10. What does Khlestakov say he will do if the Mayor will not allow him to marry Maria?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is an aside? When and why is it used? How does Gogol use asides in his play? How is an aside different from a soliloquy?

Essay Topic 2

THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR is a satire.

1) What are the conventions of the genre in terms of character, language and plot?

In what way did the the play help to set the template for similar satires? Does modern literature still use the ideas Gogol uses in THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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