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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ammos drop on the floor?

2. What does the Governor say him and Anna have turned into?

3. What does the Governor say everything is to woman?

4. What game did the Inspector General say he played with the ambassadors?

5. What does Klestakov say there are a lot of?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Gogol's life and career. What else did Gogol write and what similarities does his other work share with the Government Inspector? In what way are his life and personality reflected in his work?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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