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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 jewelry is often given to the stationmaster's daughter by ladies who pass through the station?

2. What does Ivan Ivanovich end his thinking with while sitting on the tombstone?

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

4. What does the newspaper clerk offer Major Kovalyov as he is leaving his office?

5. Where does the hussar pretend he is taking the stationmaster's daughter when he abducts her?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who visits the stationmaster's grave at the end of the story and what does he realize?

6. In "The Clothesmender", what does the priest say to the narrator are the advantages of living with the tailor?

7. What does the doctor say about Major Kovalyov's missing nose?

8. How does Major Kovalyov try to obscure his missing nose when he goes into the coffee house and when he leaves?

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

10. When does Lukerya die and what does she say about the sounds she hears?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Describe the story of the prodigal son on the stationmaster's wall in "The Stationmaster", by Pushkin. How does this allegory relate to the stationmaster's daughter in the main story?

Essay Topic 3

How does Paka describe what has supposedly happened to his real mother to the three brothers? What do they think of the situation? What do they do about it? What happens as a result of their actions?

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