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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 street does the barber Ivan Yakovlevich live on?

2. Who else is on the ship besides the Bishop in "The Three Hermits"?

3. What is the French name of the tailor?

4. Major Kovalyov's face is described as ____ where his nose used to be.

5. In "The Stationmaster," what is the traveler wearing who appears at the station three years before the narrator's second visit?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to the Bishop in "The Three Hermits", how does God reveal himself to men?

2. How does Major Kovalyov decide to approach his nose at the Kazan Cathedral and how does the Nose react?

3. How does Pyotr Petrovich interpret Lukerya's face when he encounters her in the bee hut?

4. What are the two different types of collegiate assessors?

5. What reason do some people that know of Lukerya give for her illness?

6. How does Praskovya Osipovna react when Ivan Yakovlevich finds a nose in his loaf of bread?

7. What has Platon Nikolayevich apparently said about the stench in the graveyard that is perceived by the dead?

8. What happens when the stationmaster arrives in Petersburg?

9. In "The Stationmaster", what is the narrator's main concern when he arrives at station X?

10. What does Ivan Ivanovich think of the administrative news he hears the dead people talking about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is it that Varka becomes a nanny to the cobbler's baby? What has happened to her family? How is she treated by the cobbler and his wife?

Essay Topic 2

Describe how Major Kovalyov reacts to the situation of his missing nose in Gogol's "The Nose". What does he do for a living? How does he perceive his station in life? What are his biggest fears about his missing nose?

Essay Topic 3

In "Bobok", how does the homespun philosopher, Platon Nikolayevich, explain why the people in the graveyard are still conscious after they die? What qualifies him to speak on the subject? What does he say of the death of the body?

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