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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 is staying in Room One the next New Year's Eve in "The Clothesmender"?

2. What does Ivan Yakovlevich want for breakfast when he wakes up on March 25th?

3. What is the name of a type of Russian carriage?

4. What does the Bishop suggest that the three hermits have heard of when he is teaching them to pray?

5. Where is the narrator in "The Stationmaster" traveling in May 1816?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens when the stationmaster arrives in Petersburg?

4. What does Pyotr Petrovich say about hunting in the rain?

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

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

7. Describe the character of the wife of Laputin, the benefactor in "The Clothesmender".

8. What happens when the narrator of "The Clothesmender" and the gossip are walking to the tailor's house to inspect the room?

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

10. How does the Captain try to talk the Bishop out of going to the island where the hermits live?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the function of the blue phial in "The Cave"? How does this add to the sense of foreboding in the story? What agreement does Masha hint at about the phial?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

In "Yuletide Story", why does the narrator call the old woman "the flower of god"? What does she do that causes him to use sarcasm in his description of her?

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