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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Khlestakov ask Osip to bring him?

2. Who does the Governor call a damned pack of Jews?

3. What does Anna say she saw when she met the Inspector General?

4. What do the merchants say the Governor makes people swallow?

5. What does Khlestakov say he likes?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR is translated from Russian into English. How much meaning can a play loses through a translation? What aspects of the play do you think would be the most difficult to express in English? How do you think a translator can overcome these difficulties?

Essay Topic 2

The Government Inspector books greatly influenced modern literature. Choose a book that you think was influenced by the play and discuss its similarities with the play in terms of the following:

1) Plot

2) Character

3) Themes

Essay Topic 3

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?

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