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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 kind of lodgers did the landlady like to house?

2. How old is the child in 'A Little Hero'?

3. Why did Emelyanoushka return after going missing?

4. How did Murin go about protecting Katerina?

5. What is the boy told to do the morning after the party?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who did Dostoyevsky say he was sending a message to with 'A Little Hero', and why?

2. Why does Katerina sho so much restraint while with Ordynov at the beginning of the second part of 'The Land Lady'?

3. Why did Ivan go to the theater in 'Another Man's Wife'?

4. How does 'Polzunkov' end?

5. What did Ordynov realize about Katerina and the old man after his relationship with her had ended?

6. What happened to Katerina's house at the end of 'The Landlady'?

7. What did Osip once do for an April Fool's joke?

8. What is the woman who Yulian wants interested most in?

9. Why did Osip play an April Fool's joke, and what was the cause of it?

10. Why does Katerina tell Ordynov that she has such bad luck?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Despair was a theme that was placed in a number of sensitive places in these stories. What are some of these places, and what role did despair play in these plots?

Essay Topic 2

What was the dream of the Ridiculous man, and how did it change him for both good and bad?

Essay Topic 3

What role does symbolism play in these stories and where does it appear? How are the plots altered by the presence of these symbols?

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