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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. Who chokes on a chicken bone and dies that owned the house before the tailor?

2. To whom is Lukerya betrothed when she is a young girl?

3. What is the name given to the station where the stationmaster and his daughter live?

4. What is the name of the type of small wattle shed or hut that Pyotr Petrovich finds next to the bee-garden?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Klinevich getting at with wanting to get rid of being ashamed while the corpses are conscious?

3. What happens when the stationmaster arrives in Petersburg?

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

5. How does the fisherman end up on the island with the three hermits?

6. What does Klinevich call Mr. Tarasevich and what does he say about his debauchery?

7. What happens as the Bishop returns to the ship in "The Three Hermits"?

8. What is Ivan Ivanovich's impression of the voices coming from the graves when he first hears them?

9. How does Dunya's father react to the hussar's asking if he can take her to church?

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

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 the chores Varka has to perform. When does she have time for sleep? What adds to her work at the end, which finally pushes her over the edge? What moral is the story trying to convey?

Essay Topic 3

How does Tolstoy characterize each of the three hermits in "The Three Hermits"? How do these descriptions obscure the true nature of the power that the hermits have? How is this ironic in light of the Bishop's visit to the island?

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